Ali Muldrow

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Ali Muldrow

Nonpartisan

Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4

Tenure

2019 - Present

Term ends

2025

Years in position

5

Report an officeholder change

Elections and appointments

Last elected

April 5, 2022

Personal

Profession

Racial Justice Youth Organizer/Youth Programing Director

Contact

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Ali Muldrow is a member of the Madison Metropolitan School District school board in Wisconsin, representing Seat 4. She assumed office on April 29, 2019. Her current term ends on April 28, 2025.

Muldrow ran for re-election to the Madison Metropolitan School District school board to represent Seat 4 in Wisconsin. She won in the general election on April 5, 2022.

Biography

Muldrow's professional experience includes working as a racial justice youth organizer/youth programming director at GSAFE, where she has written a curriculum and been an instructor of Foundations of Leadership, a course with a basis in the experiences of LGBTQ+ black youth. She has also taught spoken word poetry in an after-school club.

Elections

2022

See also: Madison Metropolitan School District, Wisconsin, elections (2022)

General election

General election for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4

Incumbent Ali Muldrow defeated David Blaska in the general election for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4 on April 5, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ali Muldrow (Nonpartisan)	79.0	26,199
		David Blaska (Nonpartisan) (Write-in)	10.5	3,480
		Other/Write-in votes	10.5	3,480

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 33,159
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Nonpartisan primary election

The primary election was canceled. Incumbent Ali Muldrow advanced from the primary for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4.

2019

See also: Madison Metropolitan School District, Wisconsin, elections (2019)

General election

General election for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4

Ali Muldrow defeated David Blaska in the general election for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4 on April 2, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ali Muldrow (Nonpartisan)	69.3	48,975
		David Blaska (Nonpartisan)	30.1	21,230
		Other/Write-in votes	0.6	437

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 70,642
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4

Ali Muldrow and David Blaska defeated Laila Borokhim and Albert Bryan in the primary for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Seat 4 on February 19, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ali Muldrow (Nonpartisan)	55.7	18,962
✔		David Blaska (Nonpartisan)	23.1	7,851
		Laila Borokhim (Nonpartisan)	15.6	5,301
		Albert Bryan (Nonpartisan)	5.2	1,778
		Other/Write-in votes	0.4	121

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 34,013
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2017

See also: Madison Metropolitan School District elections (2017)

Two seats on the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education were up for at-large general election on April 4, 2017. A total of six candidates filed for the seats. A primary election was held on February 21, 2017, because there were over twice as many candidates as seats on the board to be elected.

Three newcomers filed for Seat 6, which was left open when board incumbent Michael Flores chose not to seek re-election. Ali Muldrow and Kate Toews advanced to the general election, defeating Cris Carusi in the primary. Toews defeated Muldrow in the general. In Seat 7, incumbent Ed Hughes filed for re-election and faced challengers Matt Andrzejewski and Nicki Vander Meulen in the primary. Hughes and Vander Meulen advanced to the general, but Hughes dropped out of the race in March. His name still appeared on the ballot, but Vander Meulen won the seat.

General results

Madison Metropolitan School District, Seat 6 General Election, 3-year term, 2017
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Kate Toews	55.59%	25,857
Ali Muldrow	44.15%	20,536
Write-in votes	0.26%	123
Total Votes		46,516
Source: Dane County, "2017 Spring Election Official Canvas," accessed June 5, 2017

Primary results

Madison Metropolitan School District, Seat 6 Primary Election, 3-year term, 2017
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Ali Muldrow	40.16%	14,828
Kate Toews	30.24%	11,166
Cris Carusi	28.90%	10,670
Write-in votes	0.7%	259
Total Votes		36,923
Source: Dane County Clerk, "2017 Spring Primary Unofficial Canvass," accessed February 21, 2017 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available.

Funding

Muldrow had not filed a campaign finance report with the City of Madison as of March 29, 2017.

See also: List of school board campaign finance deadlines in 2017

All school board candidates in Wisconsin were required to file a campaign registration statement with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission after qualifying as candidates. This statement declares their candidacy to the county clerk's office and allows them to claim exemption from reporting campaign contributions and expenditures. Candidates were only required to report campaign contributions and expenditures if they did one or both of the following:

• Accepted contributions, made disbursements, or incurred debt in excess of $2,000 during the calendar year
• Accepted more than $100 from a single source during the calendar year, barring contributions made by candidates to their own campaigns

There were three campaign finance report deadlines in 2017:

• The pre-primary report was due February 13, 2017,
• The pre-election report was due March 27, 2017, and
• The post-election report was due July 15, 2017.

Candidates who filed before January 1, 2017, also had to file a continuing campaign finance report on January 16, 2017.

Endorsements

Muldrow received official endorsements from the Cap Times, Progressive Dane, the Democratic Party of Dane County, Four Lakes Green Party, the Teaching Assistant Association (TAA), Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg, Judge Paul Higginbotham, Rep. Terese Berceau (D), former Rep. Kelda Roys (D), county supervisors Carousel Andrea Bayrd, John Hendrick, and Heidi Mayree Wegleitner, city alders Shiva Bidar, Maurice Cheeks, and Marsha Rummel, and Madison Metropolitan school board members James Howard, Michael Flores, Ed Hughes, and Anna Moffit.

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Ali Muldrow did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2017

Facebook campaign page statement

Muldrow posted the following statement on her Facebook campaign page about why she is running for the school board:

“	I want to serve on the MMSD School Board for the love of learning. I believe in this community, and know we are capable of coming together to innovate our schools through empowering students. I want to be a part of making Madison a place where children, families, and educators feel supported, celebrated, and included by their school’s leadership. As a graduate from Madison public schools, an educator in the district, and a mother of two, I have firsthand experience within the community. I’ve worked with MMSD teachers, the city’s talented students, and their supportive families. Madison has the tools to ensure that our children have access to the most relevant technologies. We have the drive to empower students to resolve conflict, seek solutions, and value each other. We have the ability to invest in our community by growing competitive public schools that nurture a new generation of innovative Madison leaders. We have the resources to help our children to imagine the future of Madison from inside their classrooms. We are a community that prides ourself on our progress. We are not a district to be defined by our past; we are a community of learners willing to embrace the work needed to ensure that every student in Madison succeeds. We will address racial disparities relentlessly until our schools are places where students of color are recognized, valued, and provided with meaningful opportunities for success and inclusion. We need to seize the opportunity to cultivate our students’ intelligence and to support the educators in our community. I want to serve on the school board to push our schools to bring out the absolute best of each student. I want our children to live in a fair and just community, one that embraces every student’s curiosity and growth and adapts learning methods to fit each individual learner. By embracing highly-effective practices, we can adapt curriculum to offer all students the opportunity to experience the educational value of the arts, service learning, and diverse learning models. Our school board serves not only the students, but our entire community--our methods and strategies should strive to shine light on the part of every one of us that yearns to learn, that explores new ways of solving problems, and seeks out the good in all of us. In my leadership, I will empower all of us--students, teachers, families, and community members--to innovate Madison schools and give all students the chance to love learning.	”
—Ali Muldrow (2017)

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