Jessie Fuentes is a grassroots organizer, educator, and public policy advocate with over a decade of experience working in education, criminal justice reform, affordable housing, and community development.
A child of Humboldt Park and a seasoned organizer, Jessie’s lived experience overcoming poverty, violence and generational trauma, coupled with her professional accomplishments, have prepared her to serve the residents of the 26th Ward.
Through personal resilience, community support, and restorative justice, she was able to turn her most challenging life experiences into tools to uplift others facing similar life circumstances.
Jessie’s candidacy is a message to young people that transformation and change are possible. Her run for City Council is proof that one’s life circumstances do not have to dictate their destiny — this is how we advance safe communities.
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“I don’t want to govern on behalf of people, I wanna govern with people.”
— Jessie Fuentes, For 26th Ward