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Quetcy M. Lozada was born and raised in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia and is the proud mother of two amazing children Alexis Nicole and Jaime Jr. A life-long resident of the 7th District, including homes in Juniata Park and the St. Hugh’s community in Fairhill, Quetcy is currently residing in the Northwood section of the city. 

Before winning election to represent the 7th Council District in the Philadelphia City Council in November, 2022, Councilwoman Lozada most recently held the position of Vice President of Community Organizing and Engagement at Esperanza, an organization whose mission aligns with her passion of “serving the least of these”, where she was tasked with ensuring that community residents had access to resources related to improving their quality of life, education, and business opportunities. This passion for servant leadership was instilled in Ms. Lozada by her parents, Jose and Jovita, who have worked all of their lives to help provide spiritual and material support to their community. 

Prior to joining Esperanza, Quetcy served for over a decade as the Chief of Staff to 7th District Councilmember Maria Quiñones Sánchez before joining the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office as the Director of Community Engagement. In each of these roles. Quetcy M. Lozada strove to fulfill the needs of the community while living in the community. This need to get personally involved in assisting people with their problems continues to be a vital part of her work and was the motivation for Ms. Lozada to continue her journey in learning by earning a Masters in Business Administration in Human Resource Management from Lincoln University in 2019.   

Quetcy’s drive to help others is especially intense when she sees economic and social inequities occurring to people in marginalized communities. After witnessing the public health care community’s poor vaccination response to the needs of community residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, she led  public health strategy and education efforts within the community to get residents vaccinated. During  that community vaccination process, Ms. Lozada came across other needs within the community and immediately jumped to action.  Quetcy organized  monthly food distributions, LIHeap drives, and youth power talks giving younger community members the voice to be the change they wanted to see in their community.  

Ms. Lozada was recently sworn in to serve as a commissioner and secretary of Governor Tom Wolf’s Advisory Council on Latino Affairs and also serves as a commissioner on behalf of Governor Wolf on the Pennsylvania Election Law Advisory Board. She has served as a committee person in the 33rd Ward, where she has trained poll watchers to ensure fair and free elections.  She is a founding member and the chairwoman of the Latino Empowerment Alliance of Delaware Valley (LEAD) and has received many awards for her work serving the residents of North Philadelphia including Phenomenal Woman, Most Influential Latino, MLK Community Service, and Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson’s Legends award to name a few.  

Councilwoman Lozada’s electoral experience spans both local and statewide offices, ensuring that those seeking office do not overlook the community that she and her family live in. Her legacy is one built on advocacy and organizing. Her values are rooted in ensuring that the people who are elected to office are committed to being good stewards of people and the communities that they pledge to serve.  

Quetcy has played and continues to play an integral role in fostering and creating platforms for conversations between the community, clergy, law enforcement, and government to cultivate policies and private public partnerships. Through these diverse partnerships, Quetcy has organized hundreds of community clean-ups that have resulted in cleaner, safer neighborhoods, and created community policies to address long term quality of life concerns. Her body of work representing the interests of the residents of the 7th District will continue at an even higher level now that she has the privilege and the honor of representing the people of the 7th District. 

Mark Squilla represents City Council’s First District, a diverse and growing area that stretches along the Delaware River from his native South Philadelphia across Center City, Chinatown, Northern Liberties, Fishtown, Kensington and Port Richmond.

First elected in 2011, Councilmember Squilla’s life in public service began nearly two decades earlier, when he brought his Whitman neighbors together to save their local park, Burke Playground. When the City gave the space to the community’s oversight, Mark coordinated the efforts that resulted in a complete, neighborhood-led renovation. The work’s enhanced lighting, paving and new equipment increased Burke’s profile and use as a safe haven for area kids.

After seeing how the playground project united his neighborhood to make a positive difference, Mark began a weekly Saturday morning cleanup joined by members of local youth athletics teams, many of whom he had coached. As the group grew, he began voicing and seeking resolutions to community concerns ranging from broken streetlights to the effects of highway reconstruction. Since 1998, Mark has a member of the Democratic City Committee, representing Ward 39B, and in 2008, his neighbors elected him President of Whitman Council. For 25 years, the future Councilman served the cause of accountability and transparency in state government through his work in the Office of Pennsylvania’s Auditor General.

Councilmember Squilla’s experience as a community organizer, public servant, husband and father have taught him that strong families and engaged neighborhoods are the key to Philadelphia’s future. As the city grows and evolves, Mark believes that bringing together the best of each community’s tradition and new life is crucial to Philadelphia’s success, block by block and group by group. Since taking office, he has shown his commitment to this belief by immersing himself into efforts like the move toward revitalizing the Reading Viaduct and the planning work of the Central Delaware Advisory Group, to the ongoing growth and challenges of the East Passyunk Business Improvement District, which has become one of the East Coast’s most prominent emerging hotspots for living, dining and nightlife.

Councilmember Squilla is Chair of Council’s Streets Committee. Given its presence in the First District, he is likewise an ex officio member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority.

A graduate of St John Neumann High School and LaSalle University, Mark has been married for 22 years to Brigid, a nurse anesthetist. The Councilmember’s three daughters and son currently attend high school and college in the Philadelphia area.

A man with a mission to serve, Philadelphia City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson represents the Second Council District, which represents more than 150,000 residents in the neighborhoods covering  parts of Center City, South and Southwest Philadelphia and also includes the Sports stadium area, Philadelphia International Airport, and the Navy Yard.

Johnson arrived on the political scene in 1998 determined to end gun violence through Peace Not Guns, an organization he founded after the murder of his cousin – to prevent violence through education and the creation of programs that would give youth an alternative to the streets. That activism led to a successful run for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he served as State Representative for the 186th Legislative District from 2009 until 2012 when he took the oath of office for City Council. He started his third term in Council in January 2020.

Councilmember Johnson chairs Council Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention and the Committee on Rules and Transportation and Public Utilities. He also serves on the following committees: Appropriations (Vice-Chair), Public Safety (Vice-Chair),  Streets and Services; Licenses and Inspections; Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs; Commerce and Economic Development, Children and Youth; and Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation.

A lifelong resident of the Point Breeze neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Councilmember Johnson is a product of the School District of Philadelphia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Mansfield University and a Masters Degree in Government Administration from the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has completed the Governing for Non Profit Excellence Certificate Program at the Harvard School of Business. A Pennsylvania State Senate staffer for six years prior to running for the House of Representatives, Councilmember Johnson is a former volunteer for AmeriCorps, the national service organization that allows citizens to serve their communities. He was also a founding staff member of City Year, the non-profit AmeriCorps organization whose primary goal is to build advocacy through service.

Councilmember Johnson is committed to improving education, affordable housing, business development, public safety, job training and access to employment for his constituents.