Leadership Seminar Monica Wilson

Heartfelt gratitude to Vice Mayor Monica Wilson for joining our youth leaders and staff for an online leadership seminar. We discussed many issues including growing up with a commitment to community service and helping others and the importance p=of making our voices heard to create social change.

Monica Wilson is Vice Mayor of the City of Antioch, CA, and was the first Black woman elected to the Antioch City Council. On the Council, she cracked down on human trafficking, co-authored Measure W to address issues such as public safety, youth programming/gang prevention, homelessness, and quality of life issues such as code enforcement and water quality, and she collaborated on the Waterfront Ad Hoc Committee for revitalizing Antioch’s downtown “Rivertown” area.