After leaving Wilmington, NC as a child, April Farr returned home to attend UNCW, where she studied criminal justice, Spanish, and public administration and where she was later employed as Business Services Coordinator and in the Office of Institutional Diversity & Inclusion for nearly a decade. During this time, she served as a lead presenter at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, organized Cape Fear Minority Enterprise Development Week and the DNA Projects, trained Safe Zone Allies, provided budget oversight, and attended more than 50 trainings and workshops related to finance, DEI, and Human Resources. More recently, she also held leadership roles as the Director of Operations for the Future is Now Coalition and as treasurer for a local campaign.
For the past 30 years, April has worked tirelessly as a single mother to raise her two children here and to make Wilmington a better, brighter, kinder place for them to live. She has a long history of local community service, including serving as a certified Guardian ad Litem, and a Board Director for the Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA), Operation Pretty Things, and the Humane Society, as well as volunteering for Leading Into New Communities (LINC), Good Shepherd, and the New Hanover County Democratic Party from precinct chair to the executive board. From marching on Washington at 19 years old to the Women’s Marches in 2017 and 2019, to running for office in 2024, she wants nothing more than to use her expertise in operations, organization, finance, and inclusion to ensure accessibility and equity for all.