To the editor:
Marie Davis is the most qualified candidate for Ward 2 alderman based on her over 20 years of community service to nonprofit organizations, business ownership and the Sunset Hills/Crestwood Chamber of Commerce.
I originally was introduced to Marie in her work as the executive director of the local office of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), where she helped raise funds to benefit thousands of children with diabetes.
Recently, she has served as the president and temporary executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, where she worked tirelessly to bring businesses together during COVID and help grow the city’s businesses to serve their customers, including the residents of Ward 2.
Marie Davis and Christine Lieber are vying to replace Sunset Hills Ward 2 Alderman Steve Bersche in the upcoming election April 6.
Davis, 73, 9405 Parklind Drive, is an entrepreneur who has been working with nonprofit companies. She spent 20 years as executive director for the JDRF Foundation and is a volunteer for several businesses.
Davis attended the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University to study business management for nonprofit organizations. For nine years, she was an adjunct professor in the University of Missouri and St. Louis Community College systems teaching entrepreneurship and other business courses.
She is the board president of the Southwest Area Chamber of Commerce, board secretary for the Sunset Hills Conservation Foundation and board member for the Mary Culver Home for Visually Impaired Women.