Nobody Knows NC-09 Better than Cynthia Wallace
Cynthia Wallace grew up in a small town in Georgia with a rural route but no street address. She is the daughter of Mary T. Wallace, who built a career in sewing and yarn factories and Homer Lee Wallace, the first African American county commissioner elected in the history of Georgia’s Effingham County and a co-founder of the local NAACP branch.
Wallace’s parents were strong proponents of higher education. This focus helped her graduate from the prestigious Spelman College with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics, cum laude. She also completed a master’s degree in Statistics at the University of North Florida where she served as a teacher’s assistant and taught undergraduate math classes.
Wallace has lived in Charlotte for 14 years and considers NC her home. She has served as chair of the 9th Congressional District of the NC Democratic Party since January 2017. Due to her leadership, the 9th District executive committee implemented, with great success, an 8-county strategy. The team helped to close the Congressional margin to 905 votes in 2018 and within two percent in the special election of 2019. Under her direction, the 9th Congressional District Executive Committee expanded all eight county committees’ political and social media presence. The team supported the run of a democratic candidate in every North Carolina House & Senate Race in the 9th District in 2018, flipping a state Senate seat and three state House seats.
Wallace has worked for three Fortune 500 financial services companies over a 25-year career in the financial services industry where she has built her expertise in risk management and regulatory compliance.
That experience and skill has set her up to hit the ground running as a congresswoman, and she is committed to passing legislation that will deliver programs and policies that will put the families of the 9th District first. She is prepared to fight for kitchen-table issues: creating good paying jobs with living wages, addressing prescription drug prices, and investing in our children and their education.
“Cynthia Wallace has deep connections to the district and a focus on issues that will matter most for voters like protecting North Carolinians’ health care from GOP attacks and lowering prescription drug costs,” said DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos.
To learn more about Cynthia Wallace and her campaign in NC-09, visit https://www.cynthiawallace.com/
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