Amara enyia biography death

Mayoral candidate Amara Enyia speaks

Amarachuku C. Enyia is an American strategist, politician, community organizer , and municipal consultant. She has also worked as the director of Chicago's Austin Chamber of Commerce; the interim village manager of University Park, Illinois ; and chief executive officer of ACE Municipal Partners, a municipal consulting firm. Enyia is regarded to be a political progressive.

Enyia's parents were born in Nigeria and migrated to the United States in the s. Her father was a professor at Governors State University. She attended graduate school and law school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where she received a Master of Education in , a J. At the University of Illinois, Enyia worked as a reporter, development editor and editor-in-chief for Illini Media.

Enyia worked in the policy department of the Chicago mayor's office from until the end of Mayor Richard M. Daley 's term in May In this fellowship she worked on a variety of matters, including ones related to transportation and ecumenic development. After her fellowship in Daley's office, she worked as a community organizer in Chicago's West Side.

In April , she was hired as the executive director of Austin Coming Together, an umbrella organization that promotes coordination and collaboration between community and nonprofit organizations in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. She spent roughly a year in this position. During her time as executive director of Austin Coming Together, she was also part of the Community Action Councils, which assisted the Chicago Public Schools to develop an educational strategy in the city's communities.

In , Enyia began working as the director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce.