| Dar'shun Kendrick has represented House District 93, which includes East DeKalb and
South Gwinnett, ever since being elected at the age of 27 in 2011. She was born and raised
in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Towers High School in Decatur where she graduated at the
top of her class. She then went on to Oglethorpe University where she graduated in 2004
receiving a dual degree in political science and communications. She enrolled in the
University of Georgia, School of Law and graduated in 2007 with a focus on corporate law.
After working for a small boutique law firm for a couple of years, Dar'shun opened her own
business boutique securities law firm in 2010 and that same year decided to run for the
Georgia House of Representatives and enrolled in a M.B.A. program at Kennesaw State,
where she graduated in 2011. She serves on the Judiciary Non-Civil (Criminal law)
committee, the Juvenile Justice Committee, Interstate Cooperation Committee and is the
ranking Democrat on the Small Business Development and Job Creation committee. She
also serves as co-chair of the Economic Development Committee for the Georgia Legislative
Black Caucus and co-chair of the Georgia Future Caucus, a bipartisan group made up of
legislators under the age of 40.
In 2016, she founded a non-profit, Minority Access to Capital, Inc., that educates and
empowers minorities on how to access capital to grow their business and create
generational wealth. In 2017, she was elected to the Technology Association of Georgia's
(TAG) Corporate Development Board. In addition, she is a contributor to Black Enterprise
Magazine focused on economic justice issues. In 2017, she opened Kendrick Advisory &
Advocacy Group, LLC, a consulting firm in the area of business expansion, policy &
advocacy strategy and specialty project management. She was featured in the Huffington
Post as 1 of 25 people in Atlanta positioned to create diversity in tech for African
Americans and in the Atlanta Journal Constitution for business women running for office.
She is the visionary and founder of Georgia's first and only GA Blacks in Tech Policy
Conference which has a mission of collaboration between the black tech ecosystem and
policy makers to advocate for inclusive tech policy within the state of Georgia.
In 2018, her peers elected her as the Chief Deputy Whip for the House Democratic Caucus.
Dar'shun is a community activist, public speaker, elected official, private securities
attorney, consultant and a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She currently
resides in Lithonia, Georgia with her dog Dezzy |