Merika Williams:
CLASS OF 1991
Alconbury High SchoolClass of 1991
Alconbury,
Central Senior High School EastClass of 1991
Tuscaloosa, AL
Central High SchoolClass of 1991
Tuscaloosa, AL
Lee High SchoolClass of 1991
Columbus, MS
Caldwell High SchoolClass of 1991
Columbus, MS
Merika's Story
Life
Representative Merika Coleman was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2002. Representative Coleman received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communication and her Master of Public Administration Degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Representative Coleman was a 2004 Fleming Fellow with the Center for Policy Alternatives, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to strengthen the capacity of "Citizen Legislators." She was also selected as an American Council of Young Political Leaders delegate to Japan in 2003.
Professionally, Ms. Coleman has held several positions with nonprofit organizations as a public policy analyst and strategist were she championed issues such as tax reform, constitutional reform, public transit funding, affordable housing and environmental justice. She transitioned to ...Expand for more
become the Director of Community and Economic Development for Lawson State Community College where she also served as an Adjunct Instructor of Government. She currently is the Director of Economic and Community Development for the City of Bessemer where some of her responsibilities include business recruitment and retention, downtown revitalization as well as neighborhood revitalization and land use planning.
Ms. Coleman also serves as a Board member of Greater Birmingham Ministries and Saint Mary's Catholic School. She is an Executive Board Member of the Midfield Neighborhood Association, and founding member of the Midfield Voter's League, an organization which just elected the first African American Mayor of the City of Midfield. She and her husband, Edward Coleman III, are the parents of two children: Elexia, 8 and Xaviar, 5.
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