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Education:

His high educational achievements and contributions to the university led him to be inducted into the ANAK Society which is one of the highest honors you can receive.

Start of Career

While being enrolled at Georgia State University Andre Dickens began his professional career in 1994 as a part-time chemical engineer for BP-Amoco. Immediately after getting his degree the position at BP-Amoco became full-time. In 1999, Mayor Dickens, was employed at DSM Engineering and Plastics where he was a sales engineer. As a sales engineer his contribution to the company were recognized as he was named the first Black salesman of the year. After his time spent as a sales engineer at twenty-eight years old Dickens along side his older sister co-founded City-Living Home Furnishing. The furnishing company flourished for nine years from 2002 to 2011 and became a multi-million dollar business in only two locations. Unfortunately due to the housing crisis Mayor Dickens was unable to keep the company alive and in 2010 he had to file for Chapter Seven bankruptcy.

Before becoming mayor, Andre Dickens, was a highly influential at-large City Council member from 2014 to 2021. Mayor Dickens during his time on City Council focused on actively improving public safety, creating affordable housing, implementing programs for citizens, and bettering the opportunities available to students in Atlanta's Public School system. Dickens has a multitude of legislative that impacted the city positively. One of his most important contributions to the city while on City Council was his sponsorship of legislation that made the minimum wage for city employees fifteen dollars an hour.

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During his first year in office, Mayor Andre Dickens made one of Atlanta's largest-ever, single-housing investments, committing more than $100 million to new and updated housing. The Dickens administration continues to partner with and leverage tools such as inclusionary zoning to assist with this investment. In order to offer affordable housing alongside increasing interest rates, new developments in areas with major public interest such as Westside Park and the BeltLine will take precedence.

The Dickens' agenda is tasked with Moving Atlanta Forward, with emphasis on public safety, increasing opportunities for the younger population, empowering minority neighborhoods, and investing in infrastructure development. Mayor Dickens' vision for Atlanta is: "One city with one bright future. A city of safe, healthy, connected neighborhoods with an expansive culture of equity, empowering upward mobility and full participation for all residents, embracing youth development, and an innovative, dependable government moving Atlanta forward, together." The progressive agenda is grounded in three distinct pillars: A City of Opportunity for All, One Safe City, and A City Built for the Future.

Mayor Dickens' early accomplishments in office include the City's first-ever investment in early childhood education and the creation of a Nightlife Division to combat establishments with a history of violent crime.

During Mayor Dickens' term, over $13 million in funding has been set aside to combat homelessness, with the help of the LIFT 2.0 homeless response plan. By the end of 2024, the City hopes to achieve its goal of providing 1,500 housing placements for impoverished families by collaborating with local government, corporations, nonprofits, and community members.

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In October 2022, Mayor Andre Dickens appointed Darin Schierbaum as Atlanta’s 26th Chief of Atlanta Police Department

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Personal Life : Dickens has two older siblings. His mother Sylvia Dickens worked for a phone company while his step-father was an airplane mechanic. While spending time with his step-father they often bonded over taking things apart and rebuilding them which fostered Dickens' passion for engineering. (Cite: https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/andre-dickens-mayoral-election-is-for-the-soul-of-atlanta/H42UTA4L6BFEPERVRN7E6I5G6Q/)

Mayor Andre Dickens was the chief development officer for Tech Bridge; this non-profit was impacting communities by giving affordable technology and business expertise to other nonprofits in underserved areas.

Dickens also in 2018 co-founded a Technology Career Program that was for the  unemployed  to be able to learn new tech skills and other IT training to take advantage of the booming tech job market.

Mayor Andre Dickens serves on the Georgia Tech Alumni Board, the Alumnus Leadership Atlanta, Diversity Leadership Atlanta, United Way VI, and Regional Leadership Institute. Dickens also is a Brother of Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. an historical black fraternity. He also serves as a deacon of New Horizon Baptist Church

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election history

A member of the democratic party, he first served for the Atlanta city council in 2013. In 2017, as an incumbent he ran unopposed in the general election for the At-Large Post 3 seat for city council. Andre Dickens served as an at-large City Council member for two terms.During his campaign Andre received many key endorsements ranging from senators and representatives to local faith and business leaders. Included in this list was former mayor Kiesha Bottoms who endorsed Andre on November 19th 2021. l On November 2nd 2021, in the General Election for Mayor of Atlanta, Andre received 23% of the votes to secure a runoff against Felicia Moore who he would eventually defeat on November 30, 2021.