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Rawlson\u202fKing est le premier conseiller municipal noir de la Ville d\u2019Ottawa.\u202f Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu une premi\u00e8re fois le 15\u202favril\u202f2019 \u00e0 l\u2019issue d\u2019une \u00e9lection partielle historique dans la circonscription de Rideau-Rockcliffe (13), o\u00f9 il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9\u00e9lu le 24\u202foctobre\u202f2022. \u202fIl a \u00e9t\u00e9 maire suppl\u00e9ant de juin \u00e0 d\u00e9cembre\u202f2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avant d\u2019entrer dans la fonction publique, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 entrepreneur et professionnel en communications pendant plus de 20\u202fans dans le secteur priv\u00e9, dans le domaine de la recherche sur le march\u00e9 de la haute technologie.\u202f Il est cadre d\u2019association \u00e9m\u00e9rite (CAE) et poss\u00e8de une vaste exp\u00e9rience en gouvernance d\u2019organismes sans but lucratif et b\u00e9n\u00e9voles.\u202f 
 
Rawlson\u202fKing pr\u00e9side actuellement le Comit\u00e9 du patrimoine b\u00e2ti de la Ville et si\u00e8ge aux comit\u00e9s des finances et des services organisationnels, de l\u2019environnement et du changement climatique et des services communautaires.\u202f Il a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9 aux conseils de Sant\u00e9 publique Ottawa, de la Biblioth\u00e8que publique d\u2019Ottawa et de la ZAC Vanier. \u202fIl est \u00e9galement agent de liaison du conseil pour les initiatives en mati\u00e8re d\u2019antiracisme et de relations ethnoculturelles et il supervise l\u2019application de la strat\u00e9gie antiracisme de la Ville d\u2019Ottawa. 
 
Fortement attach\u00e9 \u00e0 la fonction publique, il a pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 l\u2019Association communautaire d\u2019Overbrook (2014\u20132019), si\u00e9g\u00e9 au conseil du Centre de ressources communautaires de Rideau-Rockcliffe (2011\u20132019) et pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 la Galerie\u202f101 (2011\u20132017). En\u202f2018, il est devenu le premier copr\u00e9sident du Conseil sur l\u2019\u00e9quit\u00e9 police-collectivit\u00e9 de la Police d\u2019Ottawa.\u202f Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 membre fondateur du conseil d\u2019administration de la Piste d\u2019hiver\u202fRideau d\u2019Ottawa (2020\u20132023) et si\u00e8ge actuellement au conseil consultatif du Fonds d\u2019action climatique d\u2019Ottawa (FACO). 
 
Reconnu pour son \u0153uvre b\u00e9n\u00e9vole, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9compens\u00e9 en\u202f2018 du prix du b\u00e2tisseur communautaire de l\u2019ann\u00e9e de Centraide Ottawa et s\u2019est vu d\u00e9cerner un prix de reconnaissance sp\u00e9ciale de Black History Ottawa en 2021. \u202fEn\u202f2025, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cor\u00e9 de la M\u00e9daille du couronnement du roi Charles\u202fIII en reconnaissance du service public. 
 
Rawlson\u202fKing est n\u00e9 et a grandi \u00e0 Toronto, o\u00f9 il a fr\u00e9quent\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9cole Bayview Glen. Il a obtenu un baccalaur\u00e9at en journalisme (avec concentration en droit) et une ma\u00eetrise en communication de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Carleton.\u202f Fier dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 de Carleton, il a, de concert avec son \u00e9pouse, mis en place en 2022 la bourse d\u2019\u00e9tudes Rawlson\u202fKing et Linda\u202fGrussani destin\u00e9e \u00e0 des \u00e9tudiantes et \u00e9tudiants autochtones, noirs et racialis\u00e9s de l\u2019Universit\u00e9.\u202f Le couple vit \u00e0 Overbrook depuis\u202f2004. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":6289,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Rawlson","cu_people_last_name":"King","cu_people_initials":"RK","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-6598","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Conseiller municipal de la Ville d\u2019Ottawa","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6598\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/equity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}