About Sommer
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- Co-chaired the Vote Yes for PCCS campaign in 2013.
- Was on the P-CCS Community-District Equity Leadership Team, and the Sex Education Advisory Committee.
- Member of the Canton Response to Hate Crimes Coalition and helped organize our first Not In Our Town Rally.
- Co-Founder and Chair of the Plymouth-Canton Beloved Community and for four years, ran their scholarship competition.
- In 2014, she received a Canton Community Achiever Award.
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Experienced
Sommer was elected to the Township board in 2016. She serves on the Canton Roads Task Force and the Canton Roads Advisory Group and the Culture Arts and Heritage Commission.
Previously, she was elected to the Library board where she served as it's Vice-Chair and was also on the finance committee.
She's worked for Obama for America, State Representative Dian Slavens and the US House of Representatives. She is currently a non-profit executive where she has managed a grant portfolio of $1.8 million to 8 organizations that engage in civic education work.
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- A founding member of the Canton Democratic Club, Sommer served as its first Vice-President, and later, President.
- Was the Director of Political Advocacy at Equality Michigan.
- Before she was elected to the board, she worked with Trustee Sneideman and then Supervisor Phil LaJoy to pass a fully inclusive Human Rights Ordinance in Canton.
- In 2019, she was named a "Woman of Achievement" by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.