Emily Hubbard

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Emily Hubbard

Nonpartisan

St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education

Tenure

2022 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

2

Predecessor

John Wright Sr.

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Elections and appointments

Last elected

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Mississippi State University, 2005

Graduate

Mississippi State University, 2009

Personal

Birthplace

Louisville, Miss.

Religion

Presbyterian

Profession

Sociology instructor

Emily Hubbard is an at-large member of the St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education in Missouri. She assumed office on November 29, 2022. Her current term ends in 2026.

Hubbard ran for election for an at-large seat of the St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education in Missouri. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Biography

Emily Hubbard was born in Louisville, Mississippi. She received a bachelor's degree in 2005 and a graduate degree in 2009, both from Mississippi State University. Hubbard's professional experience includes being a sociology instructor.

Elections

2022

See also: St. Louis Public Schools, Missouri, elections (2022)

General election

General election for St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education (2 seats)

Emily Hubbard and incumbent Donna Jones defeated J.L. Quinones, David Jackson, and Bill Monroe in the general election for St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Emily Hubbard (Nonpartisan)	35.1	42,264
✔		Donna Jones (Nonpartisan)	28.7	34,644
		J.L. Quinones (Nonpartisan)	14.7	17,659
		David Jackson (Nonpartisan)	11.6	14,015
		Bill Monroe (Nonpartisan)	8.5	10,234
		Other/Write-in votes	1.4	1,700

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2021

See also: St. Louis Public Schools, Missouri, elections (2021)

General election

General election for St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education on April 6, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Natalie Vowell (Nonpartisan)	15.8	20,469
✔	Submit photo	Antionette Cousins (Nonpartisan)	12.0	15,487
✔		Matt Davis (Nonpartisan)	11.5	14,922
		Alisha Sonnier (Nonpartisan)	11.5	14,893
		Emily Hubbard (Nonpartisan)	11.5	14,808
		Daffney Moore (Nonpartisan)	10.9	14,126
	Submit photo	David Merideth (Nonpartisan)	8.5	10,952
		Bill Haas (Nonpartisan) (Unofficially withdrew)	7.9	10,205
		David Jackson (Nonpartisan)	5.5	7,062
		J.L. Quinones (Nonpartisan)	4.3	5,584
		Other/Write-in votes	0.5	697

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 129,205
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2021

Emily Hubbard completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hubbard's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a St. Louis Public School parent. I have three children enrolled in a neighborhood school and one in a magnet middle school. I'm also a sociology instructor at a local university, a writer, and a so-so gardener. After five years in Dutchtown, our family now lives in Carondelet.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Clarity--SLPS needs clarity about the roles and functions of its leadership, budget transparency, and better communication.

• Care--SLPS needs care between its leadership, for its students, particularly the most vulnerable, for its teachers and staff, and for its neighborhood schools.
• Courage--SLPS needs courage to do better by its most marginalized students, in the deseg order, in asking for reparations, trusting school level leaders, and owning our faults.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Education as a public good with equal access for all

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Writers and educators like Tressie McMillan Cottom, Noliwe Rooks, Eve Ewing, and Kiese Laymon. I want to write like them and to be part of their work of making education good for Black people, especially children.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Integrity, kindness, humility, and depending on the position, the ability to delegate wisely.

What legacy would you like to leave?

Children who regularly check on the sunset, and gasp when they see a full moon, and a school district that clearly and deliberately values and cherishes its most vulnerable students.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

The Gulf War. I was six years old. I remember seeing American flags in windows that were printed by the newspaper and possibly seeing footage of missile strikes.

What is the primary job of a school board member in your view?

The job of a board member is to, with your fellow board members, create good policies, make sure the superintendent can carry them out, and to perform the appropriate fiduciary duties for the good of the children of a school district.

Who are your constituents?

The children of St. Louis.

What role do you imagine technology playing in (and outside) the classroom in the future? How would you prepare the district for this?

After the necessary emphasis on technology during the pandemic, I hope to see a greater focus on building connections and learning through in-person relationships. While technology does have its place in accessibility and so forth, I want our students to be able to go back and learn directly from a human who cares for them, not an app or a video.

Technology and its rapid pace of change will always be a constant. I would rather our district be inculcating students with the ability to learn and problem-solve--whether it's figuring out the latest technology or going back to the "artisan" skills of their grandparents or great-grandparents--than chase new tech and end up perpetually out of date anyway.

This is not to say that our teachers, staff, and other employees shouldn't get updated and efficient technology as needed.

Tell us your favorite joke.

A: Knock-knock

B: Who's there?

A: Oh-hi

B: Oh-hi Who?

A: It's Ohio, silly.

(courtesy of my son, used the last time we trick-or-treated, back before the pandemic, to participate in St. Louis's riddle Halloween tradition.)

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