Year Honored: 2015

Biography

Darlene Battle is an advocate for the needy, “always pushing for the rights and laws that impact low- and moderate-income families.” She has traveled across the United States to march and advocate for the disadvantaged, notably standing up against a Federal Reserve Interest increase on the working poor, unemployed, homeowners, and student loans in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Since 2009, Battle has been the Executive Director of the Delaware Alliance for Community Advancement (DACA). They champion issues such as same day voting registration, global warming awareness, driver’s licenses for undocumented Delawareans, and minimum wage increases. She has recruited and trained over 500 volunteers to provide “no-cost tax preparation services for low income working families” and organizes other volunteer jobs training sessions. Battle is “well-known and respected in Dover as a trail blazer who never settles for the status quo and is always willing to sacrifice her time and energy, no matter how long it might take, to have the voices of the vulnerable heard.”
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Sources and Additional Readings

Board of Directors. Network Delaware. (n.d.). Retrieved January 18, 2022, from https://www.thenetworkde.org/board-of-directors#:~:text=Darlene%20Battle%20Darlene%20Battle%20is%20the%20Executive%20
Director,licenses%20for%20undocumented%20Delawareans%2C%20and%20minimum%20
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Darlene Battle - abc-usa.org. (n.d.). Retrieved January 18, 2022, from https://www.abc-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/11-316-Calvary-BC-Newark-DE.pdf