17 Facts About Tay Anderson

Auon'tai M Anderson was born on July 5,1998 and is an American politician and community organizer from Denver, Colorado.

Tay Anderson was elected the Vice President of the Board of Education and elected the statewide President of the Colorado Black Caucus of School Board Members.

Tay Anderson was born to Mia Tay Anderson, a single mother who was a teenager when he was born.

Tay Anderson grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and moved to Denver to attend high school.

Tay Anderson attended two other schools before settling on Manual High School, where he later became student body president.

Tay Anderson lost that election, and instead enrolled at Metropolitan State University of Denver to study education and began working in restorative justice within Denver Public Schools.

Tay Anderson decided to run for the Board of Education again in 2019, campaigning on supporting low-performance schools, putting a pause on approving new charter schools, and reforming how punishment was conducted at schools.

Tay Anderson decisively won this election, and doing so ushered in Denver's first anti-reform, pro-union school board in over a decade.

Tay Anderson is one of the youngest elected officials in Colorado history, being just 21 at the time of his inauguration.

Tay Anderson was inaugurated into the Denver School Board on December 4,2019.

Additionally, Tay Anderson has led an effort to remove the Denver Police Department from public schools within the city.

Tay Anderson was a de facto leader of Denver's George Floyd protests.

On June 12,2023, Tay Anderson announced he was abandoning his Denver school board re-election campaign and would instead seek the 8th district seat in the 2024 Colorado House of Representatives election.

Later, on January 9,2024, Tay Anderson announced he was withdrawing from the race, fearing that the number of black candidates in the race would divide the black vote and allow a non-black candidate to win.

Tay Anderson was the sole vote in opposition to the measure, which was the first time the board had censured one of its own members.

Tay Anderson later pursued a defamation lawsuit against BLM5280, Fleming, and another political activist related to their public statements.

The judge agreed, and Tay Anderson was ordered to pay $61,060 to BLM 5280 and Amy Brown.