LaKeshia Myers
Office
Running for State Representative, Wisconsin, 2nd District
Biography
Dr. LaKeshia N. Myers is an educator with the Milwaukee Public Schools. Her responsibilities include serving as a School Support Coach and modeling instructional leadership for the district. Directly serving the district’s premiere alternative education center, Dr. Myers believes in serving the students that have the greatest challenges.
Previously, she served as an Education Director for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. In this post, she served as the administrator of the Oakview School and as the chief education consultant to the warden at Oakhill Correctional Institution. In this position, she was responsible for educating adjudicated individuals as they prepared to reenter society.
Prior to this, she served for eight years as Instructional Lead Teacher/Curriculum Specialist for the Prince George’s County Public Schools of Maryland, where she created a series of citizenship based service projects to assist and enhance civic education for students in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Preceding her education career, Dr. Myers served as a clerk for the United States House of Representatives. While in this capacity, she worked with Congressional leaders to author many pieces of legislation pertaining to government contracts, diversity, employee pay and benefits, and human resources protocols in the federal government. She also served as a staff writer for several members of Congress, authoring numerous speeches rendered by members on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
Upon graduation from college, Dr. Myers served as a legislative aide/policy analyst for Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor. While in this post, Dr. Myers served as the staff lead on issues regarding constituent relations, education, Health policy, state budget and appropriations. It was during this time that she also served as the Senator’s liaison with Milwaukee Public Schools.
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, Dr. Myers is a 2002 graduate of Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School, a 2006 graduate of Alcorn State University (B.A. in Political Science), a 2009 graduate of Strayer University, (Master of Education), and a 2016 graduate of Argosy University (Doctor of Education).
Dr. Myers is single and is the proud aunt of her two nephews Khalil, age six, and Kameron, age four. Source: Myers 4 Assembly.com
Priorities
Education
I believe in fully funding public schools. As a product of the Milwaukee Public Schools, I received a world-class education and I believe that all students in Wisconsin can and should receive the same. By fully funding public education Wisconsin students and teachers will have the resources necessary to compete with the rest of the nation.
Economic Development
District 12 is a unique place. While we have maintained steady homeownership rates, many that live in our community have had to deal with decreased access to goods and services. Major retail chains and large big-box stores have left our district and we are left with large, empty spaces that when left vacant for too long can breed deleterious activity, as well as fuel blight.
It is my goal to advocate for more economic development in our district. I believe it to be unfair as well as fiscally inattentive that the hardworking people of the 12th are often forced to leave the district for employment, shopping, and entertainment. I would like to advocate for more collaboration with city leaders for more industrious uses of the spaces available in our district to serve the entire state of Wisconsin.
Criminal Justice Reform
Wisconsin has the highest rate of incarceration in the United States (NPR, 2013). Many people who are incarcerated are imprisoned having not committed new crimes, but for probation and parole violations.
Source: Myers 4 Assembly.com
LaKeshia Myers
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Office
Running for State Representative, Wisconsin, 2nd District
Biography
Dr. LaKeshia N. Myers is an educator with the Milwaukee Public Schools. Her responsibilities include serving as a School Support Coach and modeling instructional leadership for the district. Directly serving the district’s premiere alternative education center, Dr. Myers believes in serving the students that have the greatest challenges.
Previously, she served as an Education Director for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. In this post, she served as the administrator of the Oakview School and as the chief education consultant to the warden at Oakhill Correctional Institution. In this position, she was responsible for educating adjudicated individuals as they prepared to reenter society.
Prior to this, she served for eight years as Instructional Lead Teacher/Curriculum Specialist for the Prince George’s County Public Schools of Maryland, where she created a series of citizenship based service projects to assist and enhance civic education for students in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Preceding her education career, Dr. Myers served as a clerk for the United States House of Representatives. While in this capacity, she worked with Congressional leaders to author many pieces of legislation pertaining to government contracts, diversity, employee pay and benefits, and human resources protocols in the federal government. She also served as a staff writer for several members of Congress, authoring numerous speeches rendered by members on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
Upon graduation from college, Dr. Myers served as a legislative aide/policy analyst for Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor. While in this post, Dr. Myers served as the staff lead on issues regarding constituent relations, education, Health policy, state budget and appropriations. It was during this time that she also served as the Senator’s liaison with Milwaukee Public Schools.
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, Dr. Myers is a 2002 graduate of Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School, a 2006 graduate of Alcorn State University (B.A. in Political Science), a 2009 graduate of Strayer University, (Master of Education), and a 2016 graduate of Argosy University (Doctor of Education).
Dr. Myers is single and is the proud aunt of her two nephews Khalil, age six, and Kameron, age four. Source: Myers 4 Assembly.com
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