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YEO Bios
Wendell Mosby

Community College Trustee
Chicago Heights, Illinois
In 2011, Wendell Mosby was the youngest person ever to be elected to the
board of trustees at the Prairie State College. As one of seven trustees,
he is responsible for hiring presidents and overseeing a $50 million
budget. Mosby serves as second vice president of the African American
Community College Trustees Association. He holds a bachelor’s in apparel
production management from the Iowa State University. He is the founder
of Just WIMP and lead facilitator for A Dream Achieved. As an empowerment speaker, Mosby
conducts workshops and presentations about leadership, bullying, and entrepreneurship. Mosby
is the Illinois state director for the Young Elected Officials (YEO) Network and national chair for the
Young & Powerful Political Action Committee (YPPAC). @friendofwendell

Jeremy Moss

State Representative
Southfield, Michigan
State Representative Jeremy Moss is a lifelong Southfield resident in
Michigan’s 35th House District. He is a graduate of the public school
system and attended Michigan State University, where he graduated with
honors in journalism and political science. In November 2011, Moss was
elected to the Southfield City Council, becoming the youngest elected
official in Southfield’s history. While in college, Moss studied race relations
in South Africa and was a part of a pioneer group of students who established a children’s center to
assist at-risk children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Moss worked in the offices of Mayor Brenda Lawrence
and former State Representative Paul Condino and as the district director for State Representative
Rudy Hobbs. Moss was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2014.
@JeremyAllenMoss

Shayla J. Nealy

City Councilwoman
Union City, Georgia
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Shayla J. Nealy is a councilmember in Union City, Georgia, and a water
resources engineer with Clayton County Water Authority. She has held
a variety of leadership roles within professional and community service
organizations. She was named as one of Georgia’s best and brightest
in the 2011 class of Georgia Trend’s “Top 40 Under 40,” as a 2012 New
Leaders Council (NLC) Institute Fellow, and as a Jewell Jackson McCabe
Emerging Leader. In her spare time Nealy enjoys nonprofit outreach, mentoring, and dance. Nealy has
a bachelor’s degree in biological systems engineering from Florida A&M University and a master’s of
public administration from Central Michigan University.