Your 46th Ward representatives.

Angela Clay

Angela was born and raised in the 46th Ward, where her family has lived for over 80 years. A graduate of Brennemann Elementary and Uplift Community High School — the ward's only high school — she was a founding member of Voices of Youth in Chicago Education and earned a public policy degree from DePaul University.

At 22 she became the youngest-ever president of Voice of the People in Uptown, protecting and providing affordable housing. During the pandemic she organized community mutual aid — all with a new baby on her hip. She has spent her life bringing neighbors together to improve lives across the ward.

Sean Tenner

46th Ward Democratic Committeeperson Sean Tenner has spent his career working for organizations and officials dedicated to social justice and the public interest. Tenner served on President Obama's campaign staff during both his U.S. Senate and Presidential campaigns and has worked for years to successfully elect Democrats at every level of government. In addition to leading the Uptown-based consulting firm KNI Communications, he has held leadership roles in a wide variety of innovative non-profit organizations addressing issues important to 46th ward residents.

Tenner was appointed twice by Illinois Governors to the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission following years of human rights work. On the Commission, he worked alongside legislators and other state leaders to develop initiatives related to genocide education. He was an early leader in the Save Darfur movement in Illinois and works closely with refugees from the violence in Darfur and South Sudan who have built new lives in the North Side of Chicago. He values his close ties with the 46th Ward's Nigerian-American, Ghanaian-American, Senegalese-American, Mauritanian-American and Ethiopian-American communities and working alongside many diaspora leaders who call Uptown home.

During his work as Committeeperson, Tenner and 46th Ward Democratic organization members have volunteered with numerous local social service organizations including Voice of the People, Cornerstone Community Outreach, Nourishing Hope (formerly Lakeview Pantry), the Greater Chicago Food Depository and Friends of Uplift Community High School.

As a former President of Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Chicagoland Affiliate, Tenner worked with our State Senator Sara Feigenholtz and our former State Representative Greg Harris to pass landmark pieces of breast cancer legislation in the Illinois General Assembly: requiring insurance coverage of breast cancer screenings recommended by physicians, requiring insurance coverage of medical costs related to cancer clinical trials, establishing numerous crucial new state programs to fight breast cancer through the "Reducing Breast Cancer Disparities Act" and requiring insurance coverage and state standards for potentially lifesaving clinical breast exams.

Tenner has done work related to post-conflict reconciliation in South Africa, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, and has also been profiled by CNN for his work founding the Uptown-based Abolition Institute, which has won over $10 million in federal funding to fight modern day slavery. He has received Awards from Voice of the People, the Community Renewal Society and clean government organization IVI-IPO, along with receiving a Belfast (Northern Ireland) Ambassador Medal and a Friends of the Diaspora Award from the Shiloh Institute.

He is a proud fan of Uplift High School basketball and has lived in the beautiful and dynamic 46th ward since 2005.