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TransFormation Tuesday: Forum for City Council President & Post 3 At-Large

  • Atlanta, GA 30303 United States (map)

Tune in to #TransFormationTuesdays to hear from candidates running for Atlanta City Council President and Post 3 At-Large

About this event

The TransFormation Alliance (TFA) and its issue champion organizations are hosting a series of live-streamed candidate forums to give Atlantans a chance to hear directly from mayoral and city council candidates about their visions for climate, equity, health, housing, jobs, and mobility.

On Tuesday, September 28 voters will hear from candidates running for Atlanta City Council President and Post 3 At-Large.

The series is sponsored by the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition and Georgia Advancing Communities Together in partnership with fellow TFA issue champions: ARCHI Health Collaborative, Enterprise Community Partners, GeneratorGeorgia STAND-UPPartnership for Southern Equity, and West Atlanta Watershed Alliance.

Schedule

Post 3 At-Large: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

City Council President: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

To qualify for participation, candidates must have a website with a url for their campaign and must have submitted the most recent campaign filing.

Moderated by Odetta MacLeish-White

Odetta MacLeish-White is the Director of Georgia Initiatives for the Center for Community Progress (CCP). In this newly created role, she will work to bring thought partnership and strategies for vacant, abandoned, and deteriorating properties to the state. Prior to joining CCP, Odetta was the Managing Director for the TransFormation Alliance, a partnership of nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses working with residents of impacted communities in shaping better health, climate, and economic outcomes through arts & culture-based community engagement, and by improving housing, transit, and jobs access.

Prior to joining the TransFormation Alliance, Odetta was a Senior Program Director with Enterprise Community Partners in their Southeast market. She supported comprehensive community stabilization efforts around the country with a focus on equitable Transit Oriented Development initiatives and nonprofit capacity building in the state of Georgia and the Southeast. Odetta has also served as a community development specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and was the staff director for Florida‘s Affordable Housing Study Commission. She discovered her love for affordable housing while working for a developer in Gainesville, Florida. Odetta earned her juris doctorate and LLM in International Law from Duke University School of Law, and her bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard- Radcliffe University.

Earlier Event: September 27
Mayoral Forum for the Arts
Later Event: September 28
NAPPS Board of Education Candidate Forum