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Amy Wakeland an American public policy expert, political strategist, and advocate for women and children. She is as well the first lady of Los Angeles and active with organizations focused on combating sexual and domestic violence, protecting children from abuse and neglect, as well as improving the economic circumstances of low-income families.
Amy Wakeland Age
Wakeland was born on August 28, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, the United States as Amy Elaine Wakeland.
Amy Wakeland Career
Wakeland’s professional career includes positions with the Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan, Michigan’s 37th Circuit Court, as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. In L.A., Wakeland served as Strategic Planner for the County Department of Public Social Services and Director of the Progressive L.A. Network prior to her work on presidential, statewide, as well as local political campaigns.
As Los Angeles’s First Lady, Wakeland has organized a wide range of events designed to diversify women’s leadership as well as employment by justly including, supporting, and promoting women of all backgrounds and experiences. Many of these occasions are targeted toward women in professional fields in which they are dramatically under-represented, such as firefighting, technology, as well as engineering.
She launched and hosted LA.’s first State of Women and Girls Address and Young Women’s Assembly in the year 2017. At this now-annual gathering, over 1,000 women, as well as girls, learn about how their local government is serving them, advocate for their needs as well as interests, and engage with women who have achieved success in areas dominated by men, such as sports, science, and elected officials.
Wakeland led the successful effort to double the size of Los Angeles’s Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART) program so that all residents of L.A. have access to its services. DART’s mental health, housing, as well as legal services are now available to domestic abuse survivors on a universal basis for the first time since the program’s inception, a former competitive high school athlete, she also was the driving force behind the massive expansion of Girls Play Los Angeles, an initiative that promotes physical activity among girls by customizing sports and fitness activities to their interests as well as subsidizing recreation fees for low-income families.
Today, girls’ sports along with fitness participation at L.A. City parks, as well as recreation centers, have increased from 10,000 girls per season to 20,000 girls per season.
During the COVID-19 crisis, Amy helped launch several important emergency relief programs. Working with the not-for-profit Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, Wakeland raised funds and developed the criteria for the highly successful Angeleno Card program, which has provided nearly $37 million in critical cash assistance to more than 100,000 L.A. residents who were living in poverty prior to the pandemic as well as faced additional financial hardship as a result of it.
She was also part of a small team that designed and implemented L.A.’s privately-funded Senior Meal Emergency Response Program, which delivered one hundred and twenty thousand meals per week at its peak to isolated seniors without access to meals.
During Wakeland’s time as L.A. First Lady, she has actively partnered with the Getty House Foundation’s Board of Directors to open Getty House – the L.A. Mayor’s official residence – to more members of the public as well as reinvigorate its programming. Between the years 2014 and 2020, more than 25,000 Angelenos visited Getty House, most of them for the first time.
Amy Wakeland Net Worth
Wakeland has an estimated net worth of over $1 Million
Amy Wakeland Height and Weight
Wakeland stands tall at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.72 m) and weighs of 59 kgs (130lbs).
Amy Wakeland Education
Wakeland enrolled at the University of Oxford as a 1993 Rhodes Scholar following her graduation from Albion College, where she studied in English and minored in public policy as a member of the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy as well as Service.
Amy Wakeland Husband
Wakeland got married to Eric Garcetti in January 4, 2009. The duo is blessed with a daughter, Maya Juanita, who is adopted. Wakeland met her husband Eric, while both were studying as Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University. The pair as well also fostered seven children for over a decade. Before being elected mayor, Eric and his family lived in Echo Park.
Eric an American politician serving as the 42nd and current Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Eric was first elected in the 2013 election and won reelection in 2017.