Kenyatta has been engaged in community affairs and politics since he was eleven years old , serving as the junior block captain with the Philadelphia Streets Program after winning an essay contest . He has worked as a political consultant on multiple local races , most notably as the campaign manager for lawyer and activist Sherrie Cohen , the daughter of longtime city councilman David Cohen , in her 2015 bid for the Philadelphia City Council . In 2016 , he was elected as a representative to Democratic National Convention ( DNC ) , earning the second-highest votes in the Commonwealth . At a rally in North Philadelphia , his introductory speech for Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton was turned into an online campaign advertisement viewed nearly half a million times
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Malcolm Kenyatta