A native Hoosier, Arielle Brandy was born and raised in the Rust Belt city of South Bend, IN, where she resides. A graduate of Indiana State University, she received her Bachelors degree in Political Science with a concentration in Legal Studies. She is currently obtaining her Masters in Public Administration from her alma mater. She serves her South Bend community as a Board Member for the Michiana Diversity Leadership Initiative Alumni Association- a leadership program under the 100 Black Men of Greater South Bend, a Committee Member for the Westside Memorial Day Parade Scholarship Fund and a Media Outreach Committee Member for the ‘Not In My Community’ Campaign, combating the use and distribution of synthetic drugs in her community.
Arielle is the Democratic Board Member of Voter Registration for St. Joseph County, where she
oversees the elections as an Election Administrator. Arielle previously worked as a Regional
Field Director, covering the 2nd Congressional District for the Indiana Democratic Party’s
Coordinated Campaign in 2016. As an organizer in 2016, she co-founded the St. Joseph County
African American Democratic Coalition. She is currently serving her second term as Vice
President and is continuously following the Coalition’s mission to help empower, educate, and
engage the African American community on politics at a local, state and national level.
Since 2011, Arielle has served the state of Indiana as an Executive Board Member for Indiana
Young Democrats. She has helped reinstate the St. Joseph County Young Democrats. Newly
elected as National Committeewoman, she will represent the organization and Indiana
nationally through Young Democrats of America. She recently served on the 2019 YDA
Convention Bid Committee which brought home the 2019 YDA Convention to Indianapolis.
Arielle now serves on the 2019 YDA Convention Planning Committee and looks forward to
bringing hundreds of Young Democrats from all across to the country to the Hoosier State.
A proud Afro-Latina activist and community organizer, she is passionate about empowering
the youth and mentoring. She has become her community’s go to on voting rights, voter
registration and voter education, inspiring youth in her community to organize and become
more civically engaged in the political process. A full time mother to two beautiful daughters,
Arielle strives to ensure that our communities are safer, educated and full of diverse leadership
not only now, but for future generations to come.