Cheri Honkala
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Cheri Lynn Honkala January 12, 1963 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Political party | Green |
| Children |
Mark Guillermo |
Cheri Lynn Honkala (/ˈʃɛri ˈhɒŋkələ/; born January 12, 1963) is an American anti-poverty advocate, co-founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) and co-founder and National Coordinator of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. She has been a noted advocate for human rights in the United States and internationally. Her interests have led her into politics, and she is best known for being the Green Party's nominee for vice-president in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
In 2011, Honkala was the Green Party candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, running on the promise of refusing to evict families from their homes. She was featured prominently in the 1997 book Myth of the Welfare Queen by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino.
She is the mother of actor Mark Webber.
Cheri Honkala was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1963. Her father, Maynard Duane Honkala, was of Finnish ancestry, and her mother had Cheyenne Native American ancestry. She grew up watching her mother suffer from domestic violence. Honkala's mother quietly endured this abuse for fear of losing her kids. Honkala was removed from the household and spent most of her youth incarcerated in a total of nine youth detention facilities.
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