Marquita Bradshaw (D)

Volunteer and Community Organizing Work Includes:
- Defense Depot Memphis, TN-Concerned Citizens Committee
- Youth Terminating Pollution (Founding member)
- Mid-South Peace & Justice Center
- Sierra Club Executive Committee
- Stand for Children
- AFGE
- AFL-CIO
- Memphis Community Advisory Board: Southern Gateway Environmental Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence
- Memphis Chapter Coalition, Black Trade Unionist Community Action and Response Against Toxics (CBTU-CARAT) Team
- Tennessee African American Environmental Justice Network
- ​Tennesseans for Fair Taxation
- Memphis NAACP Climate & Justice Chair
- Asa Philip Randolph Institute

Professional
- Executive Director, Sowing Justice
- Environmental Justice Chair for the Tennessee Chapter, Sierra Club
- International Coalition to Ban Depleted Uranium Weapons
- African American Environmental Justice Network
- Military Toxics Project
- Youth Terminating Pollution
- Mid-South Peace and Justice Center
Tennessee Valley Authority Regional Energy Resource Council

Healthcare for All

Green New Deal

Community Policing and Restorative Justice
- High Quality Public Schools
- Our society demands that we teach our students lifelong learning and skills that will translate to a modern economy. I am a lifelong proponent of funding our education system the same as we do our military in order to promote generations of meaningful success regardless of background or location in Tennessee.

Universal Background Checks

Protecting Democracy
- Get rid of Citizens United
- Living Wage

Immigration
- I Believe in DACA
- Abolish I.C.E.

Build an Economy that works for working people that's fair and equitable.
- Incentives, and investments to small and medium-sized business owners so they can do right by their employees and enjoy the profits of their work.
- Ensure a living wage.
- Revamp the outdated poverty index.
- Restructure the regressive tax system to fairly tax all working Americans, removing the burden of
>income,
>sales
>property taxes from the working population.
- Break our dependency on fossil [fuels] with a just transition to a circular economy which focus on
>clean renewable energy,
>affordable housing,
>public transportation,
>expanding Medicare, and green jobs.

Bold Environmental and Climate Action
- Will invest heavily in green infrastructure and jobs for professionals who are desperately needed in a rapidly changing environment
- Will require corporations to have environmental, social, and governance plans to rapidly remediate their waste and decrease environmental harm, and encourage a complete lifecycle of products with recycling or reuse to achieve net-zero waste
- Expanding Medicare for all to mitigate the disproportionate burdens of pollution and climate change.