
Deray will work for the Baltimore School system.
The Baltimore Sun reported:
The Baltimore Sun reported:
Civil
rights activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson will
return to his old stamping grounds at city school headquarters to lead the
district’s office of human capital.
Mckesson
was named interim chief human capital officer on Tuesday by incoming schools
CEO Sonja Santelises. It was the second and most high-profile cabinet
appointment made by the new chief, who begins her tenure Friday.
Santelises
said Mckesson, who spent about two and a half years overseeing key reforms as a
strategist and special assistant in the human capital office, would lead the
office at least through the fall.
“He
has the depth of knowledge of the system, and he has proved that he can lift
the work in a short amount of time,” Santelises said in an interview. “And he
has proven his dedication to the children of Baltimore.”
Mckesson
called Santelises a “gifted leader” and said he was proud to join her team…
…The
30-year-old Baltimore native and Black Lives Matter activist is fresh from an
unexpected run for mayor of Baltimore. He finished sixth in the Democratic
primary.
Mckesson
catapulted onto the national media stage nearly two years ago when he took a
leave of absence from his job as senior director of human capital in the
Minneapolis Public Schools system to protest the shooting death of 18-year-old
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
Mckesson
founded and leads We the Protesters, a group that advocates policy changes
against police violence.
Mckesson,
who will earn a salary of $165,000, will be the district’s third chief of human
capital in two years, and manage of a budget of $4 million and 56 employees.