Robin Wonsley is a member of the Minneapolis City Council
Following the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks, instead of serving her constituents, Robin Wonsley has spent her time trying to get the Minneapolis City to pass a resolution condemning Israel.
Is this what Robin Wonsley supports instead?
Robin Wonsley, born in 1991, is an American activist and politician of the Democratic Socialists of America. She has been a member of the Minneapolis City Council from the 2nd Ward since 2021.
Wonsley was born in Chicago and grew up on the South Side. She attended Carleton College as a Posse Foundation Scholar and graduated in 2013 with a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies. After graduation, she was awarded a Watson Fellowship that supported her travel to Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Ireland, where she studied criminal justice policies and practices. She moved to Minneapolis in 2014 and became the program coordinator for the University of Minnesota Women's Center and a board member for Restorative Justice Community Action.
After the 2015 killing of Jamar Clark by police officers in Minneapolis, she became politically active over the next several years, including in the Black Lives Matter movement and Fight for $15 organizing efforts to raise the minimum wage in the city. She joined the Twin Cities chapter of Democratic Socialists of America in March 2020. In the summer of 2020, she participated in the George Floyd protests. She also became an organizer in the defund the police movement, an effort to reallocate some community resources towards crime prevention services and programs.
In 2021, she became the first Black Democratic Socialist to win a seat on the Minneapolis City Council after she defeated 14 year incumbent Cam Gordon, a member of the Green Party of Minnesota. The election also became the first time Minneapolis elected a majority of people of color to the city council.
She resides in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis.