Desmon Duncan-Walker

Professional Background

Duncan-Walker has a background in government-program and cultural administration, including work with Miami-Dade County’s Parks and Recreation Department. After completing graduate study, she returned to Gainesville in 2014 and founded the Gainesville Alliance for Equitable Development. She has served as cultural coordinator at the A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center and on the Fifth Avenue/Pleasant Street advisory board. Her civic and communications work also includes the Alachua County NAACP and The Voice Radio Show.

Experience

• Gainesville District 1 commissioner, May 2021–current; current term January 2025–January 2029.
• Government-program and cultural administration, including Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation.
• Founder, Gainesville Alliance for Equitable Development.
• Former cultural coordinator, A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center.
• Fifth Avenue/Pleasant Street advisory board vice chair; writer and radio co-producer.

Education

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  Bethune-Cookman University: BA in Speech Communications, 1998

• Full Sail University: MS in Entertainment Business, 2010

• Buchholz High School: graduate, 1994

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