• Age on Oct. 4, 2022

    51

  • Family (immediate/those you live with)

    Dayna and Emil Mackey IV
  • Occupation

    Insurance Agency Owner
  • Previous government experience or community involvement

    Chair – United Way of Southeast Alaska, 2021 – Present, Secretary – Southeast Alaska Builders Association, 2021 – Present, Board Member, Juneau Board of Equalization, 2018 – 2022, Board Member, Juneau School District, 2015 – 2018 and 2019 – Present, Board member: Juneau International Airport Board, 2013 – 2015, Treasurer for the American Association of Public Administration – Section of Public Administration Education, 2013 – 2015, University of Arkansas Who’s Who, 2007, Alpha Epsilon Lambda Graduate Honors Society, 2000, Pi Alpha Alpha Honors Society for Public Affairs and Administration, 2000, UALR Graduate School Robert Sarver Award for Leadership, Citizenship, Scholarship, and Character, 2000, President William Jefferson Clinton Library “Three Bridges” Subcommittee, 1997 – 2000, Governor Mike Huckabee’s “Integrated Justice Task Force,” 1999 – 2000

  • Highest level of education

    Ph.D. in Public Policy

  • Did you attend public school?

    Yes

  • Do you support ballot proposition 3?

    Yes

  • Why are you running for re-election?

    I’m running for my second term, and I’m just running to ensure that there’s somebody there that can make decisions based upon the evidence that is presented at the time with the maximum efficiency and effectiveness you can expect out of a school board member.

  • What are you most proud of from your current term?

    I think I’m proudest about the way that we responded to COVID. We followed the evidence where it went, and we backed it off when the evidence showed that we could back it off. But I think we were always focused on the evidence and the best advice available.

  • What do you hope to accomplish in your next term?

    We can’t continue to face flat funding by raising PTR (pupil-to-teacher ratio). I would like for us to find other efficiencies, even if that means consolidating schools potentially, or finding other efficiencies to where we can get more bang for the buck with existing resources, because the state is obviously not going to step up to that and do adequate funding for schools. We’re going to be stuck with with flat funding from 2006 levels as far as the eye can see.