Ward Leader Anton Moore

I want us to make the 48th a POWER Ward! — Anton Moore, upon election as Ward Leader.

In June 2018, at the 48th Ward ‘Reorganization Meeting’, Mr. Anton Moore was nominated and elected overwhelmingly by the ward’s Committee People to a four-year term as Ward Leader.

The Role of the Philadelphia Ward Leader…

Ward leader responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Staffing polling places in each division with a full slate of Board of Elections officials (the people who run your polling place)
  • Recruiting committee people for all open seats
  • Endorsing candidates and running a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) program
  • Raising funds—often, but not exclusively, from candidates running for office
  • The ward leaders from the 66 geopolitical jurisdictions in the city of Philadelphia also form the Democratic party’s city committee, and they elect its chair. The chair of the Democratic City Committee is currently Congressman Robert A. Brady.
  • When a current elected official leaves office in the middle of the term, the parties’ nominees for office are nominated by the Democratic City Committee (comprised of the city’s ward leaders), rather than by voters in open and competitive primaries.

Learn more about our 48th Ward Leader and neighbor Anton Moore

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In May, 2022, Anton Moore  was re-elected by the Committee People of Ward 48 of the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee to serve his second (consecutive) term as Ward Leader.

Anton Moore works as a freelance TV producer, a community activist, and an event planner. He is President and founder of Unity in the Community, a non-profit dedicated to bringing about change to the lives of South Philadelphians. Anton’s been called a ‘Game changer’ (CBS News), a ‘Hero of the Community’, and “one of the city’s promising young leaders” in BillyPenn’s list, “Who’s Next: Public Service”. Between 2016 and 2022, he was appointed by Governor Tom Wolf  to the Pennsylvania Commission on African American Affairs which serves as the commonwealth’s advocate agency for the African American community in Pennsylvania.

His most recent endeavors include the two-year old Unity in the Community Carpentry Academy which teaches the carpentry trade to teenage boys, steering them away from the cross-hairs of community violence or the criminal justice system. The program gives the young men the knowledge and skills to go into business for themselves or join the city’s building trades unions. Then, in late 2022, the second installment of the docuseries, “Weight of Death” was released. Mr. Moore executive produced this in-depth illustration of the impacts of gun violence on communities.

Anton started in broadcasting as an intern at WUSL radio (Power 99 FM) and went on to be a show producer, Promotions Assistant, and onsite personality while also attending the Community College of Philadelphia.Previously, Anton Moore spent 7 years producing & booking talent for television segments for Black Entertainment Television’s (BET) Rap City , for BET Award show specials, and the BET Hip Hop show “The Deal”.  started in broadcasting as an intern at WUSL radio (Power 99 FM) and went on to be a show producer, Promotions Assistant, and onsite personality while also attending the Community College of Philadelphia. Anton was born in Philadelphia and was raised in the Tasker Homes Housing Development in South Philadelphia.

Honors & Awards

  • President’s Volunteer Service Award
  • NAACP Community Service Award
  • Game Changer Award
  • NewsOne/McDonalds Community Hero
  • 76’ers Heroes Among Us Award
  • Knight Foundation/BME Leader Award
  • Verizon Wireless Realize Ambition Campaign

Mr. Moore launched the nonprofit organization, Unity in the Community in 2009. Over the past past 4 years, the organization has planned and organized numerous philanthropic initiatives dedicated to changing the lives of others in South Philadelphia.

More about Anton Moore and Unity in the Community….

Anton Moore, was profiled in “Who’s Next Public Service: 19 young Philadelphians with a passion for doing good, Behind the scenes or on the front lines, these public servants are making moves for a better Philly“. (BillyPenn, by Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Apr 04 2018).

Listen to Anton Moore give his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016. (C-Span archive.)