DeRay McKesson Biography

The 30-year-old Baltimore native and Black Lives Matter activist is fresh from an unexpected run for mayor of Baltimore. He finished sixth in the Democratic primary. Mckesson catapulted onto the national media stage nearly two years ago when he took a leave of absence from his job as senior director of human capital in the Minneapolis Public Schools system to protest the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Mckesson founded and leads We the Protesters, a group that advocates policy changes against police violence. Mckesson will be the district’s third chief of human capital in two years, and manage of a budget of $4 million and 56 employees.

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