Victoria Watlington

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Charlotte City Council · City Council Special Meeting on 2026-06-18 12:00 PM - Mayoral Candidate Interviews - Jun 18, 2026 · 18 Jun 2026 meeting

And so I think that's an important thing that I've done in my career is calling on state legislative delegations, whether it's business growth and expansion, whether it's education and supporting our talent pipeline, whether it's investments and how we think about growing our city.

I mean, all of those things are things that I've done and I'm comfortable to do on day one, and they would be an extension of the work that I've already done.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

How do you plan to maintain your employment and do this role as this does take up a significant amount of time?

Well, I've recently transitioned from employment, and so I'm at a great place in my life.

And part of this was the impetus or the catalyst to say, what's next?

What are you going to do next?

How are you going to serve next?

How are you going to step in next?

So recently, I led community development for the Fed and was able to drive investments and

analyze data and inform monetary policy to support communities across six states and then work with folks across our country around best practices, around solutions, around low-income communities being better capitalized and better supported with building capacity and making investments, everything from

skills and access to jobs, to non-skill-based barriers around housing, transportation, education, those things.

And so my career has been one that spanned public, private, nonprofit, grassroots sectors, and now I'm at a place in my life where I've taken a pause to evaluate what is the next step.

So I am able to fully devote myself to this endeavor with you all in advancing the priorities.

Of course, I have a family, and so that is always going to be first and foremost for me.

But I very much, as I have always done, lean into leading in different areas of my life.

And it would be an honor to lean in to lead with you in this season, knowing that there's an interim period and the voters will next fall choose their next mayor.

But there's an interim period to help support and advance the issues that we all care about for Charlotteans to succeed.

Yeah, that's a great question.

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