Despite the District’s loyal love for leaders, there are millennial politicians who are on a mission to improve their beloved city, including Ward 8 representative and vice president of the State Board of Education (SBOE), Markus Batchelor and former president of the D.C. Young Democrats (DCYD), Marcus Goodwin.

The AFRO caught up with Batchelor and Goodwin, and while the two may have some things in common- the young men are very different candidates vying for votes on Nov. 3.

The former advisory neighborhood commissioner and youngest person ever elected to the SBOE is confident that his experience makes him a candidate with a pulse on the trials facing the District and is taking a community approach to help create a more equitable D.C.

“When we’ve been talking to voters around the city, I think it’s pretty clear that all of our residents want equal access to the same things.

They want a response to COVID that is not going to put their lives in danger, but is also not going to take us back to the city that we were before and that’s going to make this city more equitable,” Batchelor told the AFRO in a Facebook Live interview.

In contrast to Batchelor, this is Goodwin’s second time running for an at-large city council seat in 2018 as a Democrat.