Meet the Candidates: Mayor

Candidate for Office of Mayor

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PATRICK L. WOJAHN

Patrick Wojahn has served as Mayor of the City of College Park for the past 6 years. He also works as an advocate for trails and safe bicycle and pedestrian networks as Director of Government Relations at Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Previously, Patrick worked as a policy and legal advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and for people living with HIV/AIDS in the DC metro area. He was a founding member of the Board of Director of the College Park Community Foundation. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Patrick received his law degree from Georgetown in 2002. He has lived in College Park with his husband, Dave Kolesar, for over eighteen years. Patrick ran for Mayor to help College Park realize its unfulfilled promise of becoming a top-tier college town. As Mayor, Patrick led the initiative to revitalize downtown College Park and build a new City Hall, the first in the country to be built in partnership with a university. Patrick has also led initiatives to improve College Park's environmental sustainability and to pursue restorative justice and address the longstanding harm caused by urban renewal in Lakeland.