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Naoma Nagahawatte

Posted inActivism

Op-Ed: Lightfoot Has Failed Us on an Elected School Board

by Naoma Nagahawatte May 28, 2021May 30, 2021

tanding with hundreds of other Chicagoans outside of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home on May 20, her two-year anniversary as mayor, it occurred to me that we shouldn’t have had to be there.  Lightfoot told us she would do right by thousands of disenfranchised people whose needs have been disregarded by this City. She told us […]

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