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Kina Collins is a native of the Austin community, born and raised on the west side of Chicago. She comes from a large, working-class family that is union strong through and through.
Illinois 7th is one of the most diverse districts in the state. But it’s also one of the most unequal districts in the entire country.
In Streeterville, home to the Magnificent Mile, your life expectancy is 90 years. In Englewood, you’re only expected to live to age 60. Same city, same district, yet your life is going to be 30 years shorter than someone living just miles away.
This district is home to gleaming skyscrapers and abandoned buildings. In neighborhoods like Kina's, there isn't fresh produce in stores — but there is lead in the drinking water. More than 20 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, including 30% of our kids. And 28% of all the gun violence in the entire state of Illinois happens there.
In one of Kina Collins' earliest memories, she saw a child get shot and killed in front of her house. She knew the victim, and she knew the shooter, too. She started organizing for gun violence prevention at the local and national levels. Once she got started, she didn’t stop. She couldn’t stop. Because organizing is how we can get gun-free streets, affordable housing, incredible schools, clean air and water, and free healthcare.
We can get all of that — but only if we fight for it. And only if we elect leaders who will fight for it. Congressman Danny Davis — who has been representing this district since Kina Collins was five years old — is not that leader. So, like she's always done — like she's been born to do — Kina Collins is organizing. She's running for Congress in Illinois’s 7th District to be that leader.
Kina Collins is building a grassroots movement that will take on and beat an out-of-touch, entrenched incumbent. A movement that will elect someone who will organize both in the House chamber and on the front lines of this district. Who will make change instead of excuses.
Sign to join Kina Collins for Congress now if you want to join our grassroots movement for change.
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