She ran a strictly grassroots campaign to become the youngest woman ever elected to Bowie, Md.’s City Council—and a rarity in PG County. Find out why!

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Independent Women’s Forum is pleased to announce that Bowie, Md., City Councilwoman and Mayor Pro Tem Roxy Ndebumadu is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles ([link removed]) .

When Ndebumadu (pronounced IN-DEY-BOO-MAH-DOO) won her seat on the City Council in 2019, she was 26 years old, the youngest woman ever elected to the City Council, and also one of the few Republicans elected to office in heavily liberal Prince George’s County.

A Howard University graduate, who divided her childhood between Maryland and Nigeria, Ndebumadu describes her successful campaign for a seat on the Bowie, Md., City Council as “kind of grassroots.” Make that strictly grassroots. Roxy was her own campaign manager and treasurer.

“We ran ads on Facebook,” Roxy recalls. “I used a text service called RumbleUp. And then I also leveraged ads on radio, and all the major applications such as Bed Bath & Beyond, and Bank of America. The person who did my video was a videographer who was a colleague from Microsoft. I leveraged a lot of the creativity from the private sector and advisors I had met within the Republican Party.”

“I wasn’t always a Republican,” Roxy tells IWF. “When I was growing up, I pretty much thought I was a Democrat, because most African-Americans or Black people are more associated with the Democratic Party. I don’t necessarily think I intentionally sought out the Democratic Party, but it was kind of ‘you’re just a Democrat because you’re black’ kind of thing. When I got to the age where I was knowledgeable enough to do my own research and understand what my values were, I became a Republican at that time.”

A stylish young woman with big tortoiseshell glasses, Roxy had a difficult childhood, in a struggling household. “I never adopted a victim type of mentality, I always rose above any situation that was presented to me, and those are the experiences that have taught me what perseverance looks like.”

We know you’ll enjoy meeting Roxy and expect you’ll be hearing more about this accomplished woman who’s just on the first rung of what promises to be a hugely successful public career.
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