Banks Invites the DCYDs to Mafiaoza's

At-Large Metro Council Candidate and DCYD Member Brady Banks has personally invited the DCYDs out for a reception at Mafiaoza's Pizzeria and Pub. This is a great opportunity to get to know the candidate and learn more about the issues that are driving him to run. The invitation is below along with a brief biography.

A Quick Biography

As a Nashville native, Brady cares deeply for our city, its citizens, and its families. He wants to work to find ways to make our city better for everyone in Davidson County.

He envisions a Nashville with the best schools, safest communities, most affordable neighborhoods, and access to opportunity for every Davidson county resident. These goals are the essential cornerstones of a high quality of life.

Brady was born at the old Donelson Hospital in the Hermitage-Donelson area. It is in Nashville where he played, learned, and worshipped. Much of his early life was centered around community, school, and church. He attended Dodson Elementary, Wharton Middle, Dupont-Tyler Junior, and McGavock High schools. And whenever the doors were open, Brady was with his family at Hermitage Hills Baptist Church, singing in choir or participating in youth activities. It is in school and in church that he learned the values of hard work, civic participation, and caring for one’s neighbors.

After high school, Brady pursued studies in religion and hoped to become a minister. It is during this time that Brady ministered to youth groups and churches stateside and on mission to churches and communities in Brazil and the Middle East. But as he completed his Bachelor of Arts at Mercer University and began his studies for Master of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, he was called to public service.

While at Harvard, Brady studied religion and public policy. He worked with multiple nonprofit organizations, focusing primarily on faith-based affordable housing efforts. During the summer of 2003, Brady received a grant from the Hauser Center for Nonprofits at Harvard to draft a paper on Nashville’s faith- and community-based affordable housing efforts through the Mayor’s Office of Affordable Housing under Mayor Purcell. This paper eventually was used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s “Unlocking Doors” initiative nationwide as a case study for best practices.

Brady graduated with his master’s degree from Harvard in 2005. That same year, he was chosen as a grant recipient for a program at Dartmouth’s Tuck Business School for emerging community leaders across the United States.

Brady has also worked on multiple national and state campaigns. He most recently managed a campaign for a Tennessee State Senate race in 2004. He has continued his work in affordable housing, first working with a local housing nonprofit in Nashville and now as the Appeals Coordinator for Tennessee Housing Development Agency, the State of Tennessee’s affordable housing authority.

When he is not on the campaign trail, Brady enjoys spending time with friends and family, traveling, reading, listening to music, playing tennis and playing his guitar. He especially enjoys the company of his girlfriend, Kristin Clark, a minister a Christ United Methodist Church in Franklin.

Brady is actively involved in a number or organizations in Nashville, including Habitat for Humanity, Edgehill Center, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Generation TN and the Nashville Symphony. He teaches Sunday School and participates in worship at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Belle Meade.