Malcolm Kenyatta

Malcolm Kenyatta is a community activist and American politician from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who currently serves as a State Representative for the 181st District in the Pennsylvania General ...Show More

Malcolm Kenyatta is a community activist and American politician from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who currently serves as a State Representative for the 181st District in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. He is a member of the Democratic Party.Kenyatta has been engaged in community affairs and politics since he was 11 years old, serving as the junior block captain with the Philadelphia Streets Program after winning an essay contest.He has worked as a political consultant on multiple local races, most notably as the campaign manager for lawyer and activist Sherrie Cohen] the daughter of longtime city councilman David Cohen, in her 2015 bid for the Philadelphia City Council.In 2016, he was elected as a representative to Democratic National Convention (DNC), earning the second-highest votes in the Commonwealth. At a rally in North Philadelphia, his introductory speech for Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton was turned into an online campaign advertisement viewed nearly half a million times.Kenyatta was selected as one of seventeen speakers to jointly deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. This made him, Sam Park, and Robert Garcia the first openly gay speakers in a keynote slot at a Democratic National Convention. Hide