Amara Enyia Runs For Mayor Wait Who

• Courtesy of Amara Enyia
• Amara Enyia—a 31-year-old community activists with all of $650 in her coffers—takes on our $7 million mayor.

By all conventional wisdom, Amara Enyia hasn’t a chance of getting elected mayor, so she shouldn’t even try.

Hard to argue with that.

Her parents—Samuel and Irene—were born and raised in Nigeria. Her father fought for Biafra in the Nigerian Civil War.

Then she got a PhD in educational policy. And then she graduated from Champaign’s law school. And then she learned to fly a jet plane—just kidding.

Like Mayor E, she got her start in politics with Mayor Daley. Which I don’t hold against either one of them—OK, well, maybe a little.

And by last year, disgusted with the direction Emanuel was taking the city, she decided to run for mayor.