Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens is running to succeed Mayor Ben Walsh, whose administration she has worked in for the last seven years.
Owens is the Democratic candidate for mayor and faces Republican Tom Babilon independent candidate Timothy Rudd and independent candidate Alfonso Davis. If Owens wins, she will become the first Black woman to serve as mayor in the city’s history.
She has been a Syracuse resident since graduating from Syracuse University in 1985. She also serves as board president for Blueprint 15, the local nonprofit organization that is associated with community outreach for the billion-dollar East Adams redevelopment project…