Lakesha Womack is from Alabama. She has a bachelor27s degree in political science from Vanderbilt University and a master27s in divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her son, Kristian Womack. She is a lifelong member of Simpson Chapel AME Zion Church in Greenville, Alabama.

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Lakesha Womack has a bachelor's degree in political science from Vanderbilt University and a master's degree in divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in legal studies at Vanderbilt Law School. She is a mother of one and a member of Simpson Chapel AME Zion Church in Greenville, Alabama.

LaKesha is the chief strategy officer at ASPIRE Community Capital, an emerging community development financial institution (CDFI). She previously worked as a consultant and minister. 

LaKesha is the chief strategy officer at ASPIRE Community Capital, which works to expand economic opportunity for undercapitalized entrepreneurs. She previously worked as a consultant and minister. 

Lakesha Womack's campaign for North Carolina U.S. representative, District 14, is her first time running for public office.

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Supports policies that aim to reduce prices, increase access to capital for small business owners, expand workforce development, and provide childcare and paid leave for working families.

Supports policies aimed at reducing prices.

Wants increased access to capital for small business owners.

Aims to provide childcare and paid leave for working families.

Aims to reduce "unnecessary regulatory barriers while protecting workers and consumers."

Opposes policies such as 50-year mortgages because she believes they "undermine long-term stability."

- Supports policies aimed at reducing prices.
- Wants increased access to capital for small business owners.
- Aims to provide childcare and paid leave for working families.
- Wants to raise the federal minimum wage.
- Aims to reduce "unnecessary regulatory barriers while protecting workers and consumers."
- Opposes policies such as 50-year mortgages because she believes they "undermine long-term stability."

Economy

Promises to try to ensure disaster-relief money reaches communities promptly.

- Promises to try to ensure disaster-relief money reaches communities promptly.

Public Safety

Supports expanding affordable healthcare options, lowering prescription drug costs, and strengthening mental health resources.

Believes in protecting and expanding the Affordable Care Act.

Supports lowering prescription drug costs.

Seeks to strengthen mental health resources.

Claims she will fight for full funding of rural hospitals and community health centers

Opposes policies that shift health care costs onto working families.

- Believes in protecting and expanding the Affordable Care Act.
- Supports lowering prescription drug costs.
- Seeks to strengthen mental health resources.
- Claims she will fight for full funding of rural hospitals and community health centers
- Opposes policies that shift health care costs onto working families.

Healthcare

Supports equitable education funding and resources, access to early childhood education, and affordable college and career training.

Supports affordable college and career training.

Champions increased federal investment in public schools and educator support.

Wants increased access to early childhood education.

- Supports affordable college and career training.
- Champions increased federal investment in public schools and educator support.
- Wants increased access to early childhood education.

Education

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Energy & the Environment

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Believes people's rights are being "violated" by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, and that deparment must be "defunded and held accountable for their actions."

- Believes people's rights are being "violated" by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, and that deparment must be "defunded and held accountable for their actions."

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Wants to protect voting rights and "democratic safeguards."

- Wants to protect voting rights and "democratic safeguards."

Voting & Elections

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Lakesha Womack

- Your U.S. representative represents the interests of your district in the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. North Carolina currently has 14 U.S. representatives.
- U.S. representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become federal law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain areas of policy, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the speaker of the house or majority/minority leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms and there are no term limits. U.S. representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.
-  Representatives must be at least 25 years old, a United States citizen for seven years, and an inhabitant of the state from which he or she is elected. 