Mayor Brandon Johnson vows to hire a new leader to address gender-based violence – WBEZ (Chicago)

Darci Flynn, the first director of gender-based violence strategy and policy within the mayor’s office, submitted her resignation Sept. 21, and was terminated four days later. Said Karla Altmayer, chair of the Survivor Working Group under Flynn's direction, “One thing that we’ve heard from the administration over and over again, has been this idea of co-governance. And I think for us the question has been: well, what does that look like? And I think we really want to see that co-governance includes not just saying, ‘You’re at the table.’ But it also means we’re going to resource this work.”