Councilmember Andrea Boone

Civil Rights activist Reverend Joseph E. Raised in Atlanta, she was plunged into her family’s life of community activism at a young age. Marching as a toddler in picket lines, she grew up deeply involved in assisting in her father’s activities in the Civil Rights movement at Rush Memorial Congregational Church, the meeting place, and organizational base at the Atlanta University Center for the Student Non–Violent Civil Rights movement. Across her youth, she was active in an unusually broad range of community service and economic development activities, including programs for the Visually Impaired African American Senior Citizens at the P.J.Woods Center for the Blind and the P.J. Woods Plastics Company, as well as various projects for Youth fellowship activities and feeding the homeless. After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta, she enrolled in Tuskegee University, majoring in English and minoring in drama. On campus, she enjoyed becoming an accomplished actress, appearing in campus productions of Broadway plays such as Westside Story, Porgy and Bess, and My Fair Lady. Honored to become a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, she continued her tradition of community service by mentoring and tutoring school children in the elementary school eventually adopted by her sorority in the nearby town of Tuskegee. As a highlight of her college career, she was given the opportunity to polish her already well developed diplomatic skills by traveling extensively across Europe in a Study Abroad program for which she was competitively chosen. After her graduation from Tuskegee, she immediately plunged into community service and civic activism by becoming Chief Administrative Officer for one of Atlanta’s most prominent and affluent African American City Council Districts – Council District 10, the office of Councilman C. Martin. Over the past 19 years, she has specialized in operationalizing bold new project initiatives to improve the quality of life in her Westside communities. She has consistently striven to polish her talents in community organizing and volunteer mobilization to substantially impact the quality of life for over 30,000 residents of her Council district. By the year 2001, her career in public service had earned her a distinguished series of awards – “Outstanding Young Woman of the Year” from the national Outstanding Young Women of America, Inc.(1998), the Mayor’s Tops Award (2001); Caribbean Festival Award (2001), (2003) UNCC WOMAN OF THE YEAR, (2004) Member - League of Women Voters, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Community Service Award, (2004) Resolution honoring Andrea L. Boone from the Georgia General Assembly, City of Atlanta Women’s History Month Award Recipient from Mayor Shirley Franklin (2006) Graduate: The White House Project (2006) and 25 other Community Service Awards from various community organizations. She is also proud to be a professional in the field of political campaign management, having coordinated political campaigns for offices at the city, county, court, sheriff, and state levels. Major achievements for youth have included: managing the logistics for the opening ceremonies and assisting with programming for the 97,240 sq. new Adamsville Gymnasium/ Natatorium, managing the operational growth of the annual Youthfest program from an attendance of 150 to programming activities for over 3,000 children;.assisting in the implementation of the Mobile Youth Resource Center, and the establishment of the Atlanta Youth Commission (1995). The annual Youthfest festival currently involves a staff of 25, over 300 volunteers, scores of community and business organizations, and a budget of at least $40,000 for the one-day event. Reaching out to the business community, she assists with activities with the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Merchants Association. For senior citizens, she coordinates annual Holiday fruit basket and festivity programs for the Hightower Manor senior high rise. She also manages interagency coordination to provide monthly District 10 Beautification and Clean-up efforts and also to resolve hundreds of constituent concerns on other issues involving city services. Tapping into the critically important church community, she also coordinates with members of the 10th District Ministerial Alliance for various community initiatives. Her activities with NPU’s H and I and on the Southwest Comprehensive Master Plan impact the quality of life for Westside communities from Hamilton E. Holmes on the east across I-285 to the city limits on the west, from portions of Bolton Road and I-20 on the north to Campbellton Road on the south, along the I-20 and Martin Luther King Corridors, Peyton Road and portions of Benjamin E. Mays Drive - including Collier Heights, Adamsville, Baker Hills, Wilson Mill Meadows, Ridgecrest Forest, Wildwood, Boulder Park, Wisteria Gardens, Westhaven, Harland Terrace, Peyton Forest, Chalet Woods, and Florida Heights. She has also coordinated initiatives with the Public Safety Task Force and Public Safety Committee dedicated to raising the climate of safety and security for her fellow Atlantans – of all walks and stations of life. During Hurricane Katrina – Andrea took on the awesome task of placing families with District 10 Churches and placing 12 Families in temporary housing and assisted them with Job placement. Andrea Boone was an elected Delegate from Georgia’s 5th Congressional District for Presidential Candidate Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention in 2008 and most recently elected to serve in the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Currently, Andrea L. Boone serves as Commissioner of the Office of Constituent Services for the Honorable 59th Mayor of the City of Atlanta, Mayor Kasim Reed.