Georgia State University College of Law professor and entertainment lawyer Mo Ivory has announced she is running for the District 4 seat on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, challenging incumbent Natalie Hall. 

Atlanta has been home to Ivory for over 30 years and, in that time, she said she’s seen the growth that the city has experienced, but also the pain it has endured. She’s running on a platform that hopes to highlight issues such as homelessness, affordable housing, taxes, election integrity, public safety, health and human services and criminal justice reform.

“I’m proud of my community. I’ve always been politically involved, and I feel like it’s a great time for me to serve. It’s a time for leaders like myself to be there for all of the issues that I think are important,” Ivory said.

“As a parent, as a wife, all of these issues are things that we face all the time and things that I care about,” she said. “I believe as an elected official, to sit on the Fulton County Commission, I could really have an impact there.”

Besides a city council run in 2017 for the District 1 seat, Ivory’s political involvement has been out of the spotlight and more on the ground. She’s worked behind the scenes for various political campaigns and has been a vocal advocate for voting rights in the community. Her first foray into working on political campaigns came when she worked to increase voter turnout during former United States President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. She raised funds to rent a charter bus for a week called Mo’s Voting Party Bus which took 12,000 students to vote.

“I’ve learned that both campaigning and serving is…