Alicia Barksdale for Female District Leader for the 70AD part D 2019
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Committee to elect Alicia Barksdale for District Female District Leader 70 AD! It’s not about just getting a vote but getting people to vote!
For over 40 years, Alicia Barksdale has only known one real home – Harlem. She is a product of the neighborhood she now hopes to impact as a District Leader – areas rife with poverty, plagued by a flawed education system, and hampered by a housing crisis of its own. It is these challenges that have propelled Alicia to step up. Her volunteer service dates back thirty years, beginning with The Girl
Scouts of America, Harlem Chapter, PTA president, DTH volunteer. Subsequent service opportunities with the New York Public Library, Community Board 9, WeAct, the West Harlem Empowerment Coalition Outreach Program, and the 30th Precinct Community Council National Night Out Chair, NAACP Housing & Youth Co-chair have to afforded Alicia a rare window into a challenged community – where youth and seniors are often silent victims. Alicia aims to help reclaim the younger generation by supporting community based programs, Registering eligible youth to Vote, early childhood development and schools built to eliminate overcrowding and equality in their education. She is also demanding teachers stop teaching to the test, and challenges community leaders to provide new safe havens and programs for teens. With limited nursing & Senior Housing in the neighborhood, Harlem , Seniors often become displaced and ends up passing sooner. Alicia is pushing for a better quality of life and affordable housing for seniors and desires for them to have decent housing when available, home healthcare regardless of income. Also offering free "Immigration forums" explaining the President Obama's "Immigration Laws", Forums on" Wills & Estates" for families in our community to plan properly, and focusing on "Succession Rights" in Housing/NYCHA! Even more crucial to Alicia is housing. For the past eight years, she has served as Tenant Association president for 3333 Broadway, one of the largest apartment complexes in North America & Harlem. In that role, Alicia has implemented countless reforms and organized numerous forums, where residents have been able to question how community leaders are working for them, accessible to them and are obligated to help them. Membership of 3333’s Tenant Association has swelled under Alicia’s leadership. To further assist Harlem residents, Alicia’s advocating for "Targeting Incomes" for housing rents to meet instead of exceed peoples income levels based on Westchester's AMI or based on the "Swell of Re-Gentrification Incomes" moving into our community. For Alicia, doing the work of the community is truly a labor of love. She’s proposing vocational training by Columbia University to help spur economic development in Harlem. As a mother of two, and a "GLAM-MA", women’s issues are also key. Alicia’s two daughters often describe her as too kind and too generous – saying she does her best to try to save our Community. And, despite countless hours of service and sacrifice, Alicia has not given up. In her words, “It’s not about being in the limelight – it’s about helping our community be heard and taken seriously!”
