What’s the job: Representing residents on the 15-member City Council, including introducing and voting on legislation, approving city spending and providing oversight of city operations. Council members are elected to four-year terms by district. The 10th District includes South Baltimore neighborhoods such as Brooklyn, Cherry Hill, Curtis Bay, Morrell Park and Washington Village/Pigtown.

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Democrats

Name: Phylicia Porter

Age: 36

Personal: Porter is unmarried and lives in Pigtown.

Education: Bachelor’s degrees, molecular biology, biochemistry and bioinformatics, and biology, Towson University; master’s degree, public health; Morgan State University; master’s degree, law, from the University of Maryland.

Experience: First elected to the council in 2020, Porter has served in numerous leadership capacities with the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership, both before and after joining the council. Before getting elected to public office, Porter was a community organizer in West Baltimore and was elected in 2018 to the Democratic Central Committee, representing the 40th District of Maryland, which covers West Baltimore.

Endorsements: Metropolitan Baltimore AFL-CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Maryland Council 3, CASA In Action, 1199 SEIU, Sierra Club Maryland Chapter, Clean Water Action

Notable donors: AFSCME; Baltimore City Fire Fighters Local 734 PAC; the Baltimore Gas and Electric PAC; the Baltimore Towing Company; lobbying firm Harris Jones & Malone; Sen. Antonio Hayes; Joshua Fannon, the president of Baltimore Fire Officers IAFF Local 964; Del. Regina T. Boyce and state Sen. Sarah Elfreth; former Mayor Catherine Pugh; Alex Smith of Atlas Restaurant Group donated $1,000.