Restoring public trust in government and its elected leaders is Alexi’s top priority. At 30, Alexi was elected as Illinois State Treasurer, becoming the youngest State Treasurer in the nation. Inspired to run by his friend and political mentor, President Barack Obama, Alexi’s platform centered on the simple belief that it was possible to create opportunity where everyone, not just the privileged few, had
Kwame Raoul was born in Chicago to Haitian-born immigrants. A lifelong resident of the Hyde Park/Kenwood area, he completed his undergraduate education at DePaul University and went on to earn a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Kwame started his legal career nearly 25 years ago as a prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and continued to practice as a labor
Michael Frerichs (pronounced FREH-ricks) was born and raised in the small, downstate farming community of Gifford, Illinois (population 1,000 on an optimistic day). The son of a Teamster truck driver and a university secretary and AFSCME member, Mike was a first-generation college graduate when he earned a degree from Yale University. After graduation he spent two years in Taiwan where he taught English to
