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Wala Cares About Our Issues

My Name is Wala Blegay and I am an attorney and activist committed to my community. I am committed to a Prince George’s County with the amenities that will benefit our community: better schools, safe communities, quality retail, adequate healthcare, smart growth and more.  We want a community where people can live, work and play in beautiful and safe communities, where business and industry thrive, and where there are great entertainment and leisure activities. 

An Advocate for
Prince George’s County

The Best Place To Live, Work and Play

 

 Improving Our Schools:

When you elect Wala for County Council, you will get an experienced leader who is committed to a budget that supports increasing teacher salaries and creating smaller classroom sizes. She supports bringing wrap-around services into schools for students in need, including increasing school-based health clinics and mental health programs. Wala also supports school renovation and construction, and supports collaborating with local businesses, especially those in the STEM industry, to establish apprenticeship programs. 

Bringing Quality Retail to Prince George’s County:

Wala supports incentive programs to bring quality retail to compliment our beautiful communities. We must bring our shopping closer to home, which will improve the values of our homes and the commercial tax base. 

Support Small Businesses and Creating an Incubator
in Prince George’s County:

By creating a business incubator program that helps new and existing businesses find pathways to do business with the County, we can see growth in minority-owned local businesses and economic growth. We must also put into place programs that will help bring more high-tech industry jobs to the County. 

Increasing Services for Residents:

Wala fully supports funding services that benefit residents by meeting them where they are, including affordable housing, senior care, community health centers, mental health services and more support for our communities in need. 

Transit Oriented Communities:

When done right, transit-oriented development can be an exciting driver of economic development and a creator of a significant number of jobs. Transit orientated development would provide residential, retail, and transportation options in one accessible location. We have to re-envision a more accessible intra-county public transportation system that facilitates ease of travel throughout the County, including sidewalks and bike lanes. 

Safe Communities:

Wala supports keeping our neighborhoods safe by building on the philosophy of communities being Partners in Community Safety, supporting community-oriented policing and neighborhood coffee clubs and Neighborhood Watch communities. 

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    Meet Wala

    Wala Blegay has been a Prince George’s County resident for over 20 years and is an advocate who has fought for Civil Rights, Women’s Rights and Workers’ Rights. She is currently counsel for the DC Nurses Association, a talk show host for the Chat With a Lawyer TV Show, which provides free legal advice to the residents of Prince George’s County, Maryland. and an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. She recently ran for State Delegate in District 25 in Prince George’s County, MD.

    Since 2014, Wala has been the staff attorney for the DC Nurses Association where she advocates to improve the working environment for nurses. She enrolled in the Union Summer program in 2005 while in college where sje participated in strikes, organizing campaigns and demonstrations. During the program, she organized the Metropolitan Museum of Art kiosk workers in New York. Although the union lost that election, she learned what it took to empower workers to work in solidarity with their colleagues to improve their working conditions. Shortly after college, she worked for AFSCME on their homecare and daycare workers campaign and she decided she wanted to join the movement and become a Union lawyer. She worked for the AFL-CIO and SEIU while in law school and for the NLRB after law school.

    Wala previously served on the Prince George’s County Human Relations Commission, the adjudicatory board that enforces discriminatory cases in the County. She was also appointed to the Maryland Governor’s Task Force for the Study of Economic Development and Apprenticeship Programs by Former Governor Martin O’Malley. She has served on the following Boards: The Training Source, ACLU of Maryland, Maryland Legislative Agenda for Women, Prince George’s County NAACP, Emerge Maryland and Maryland Coalition of Consumer Rights. She was also a recipient of the 2015 40 under 40 in Prince George’s County award, the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials Presidential Service Award and the Daily Record Leading Women award. She has written several articles on civil rights, health care and education issues; ran numerous campaigns in Maryland and the District of Columbia; and was an At-Large Delegate for the 2012 Democratic Convention.

    Wala was born and raised in Washington DC and is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She is a first generation Liberian and Nigerian American; a graduate of University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in Government and Politics; and earned a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.

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