Cameron Webb, an internal medicine physician, is the first African American to ever run in the 5th district of Virginia. After college,  Dr. Webb left Virginia to get both his law degree and medical degree. Both he and his wife, an ER doctor, have been on the frontline of the COVID pandemic since it began earlier this year. Before coming home to Charlottesville, he worked for President Obama as a White House fellow, the only doctor on the White House Health Care Team. He also spent time working on education policy within Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. When the Trump administration began, Dr. Webb stayed but found it increasingly difficult to make any progress. He later left Washington and went to work as a teacher and doctor at University of  Virginia’s school of medicine. He knows first hand how COVID-19 has affected not just his community, but the country. 

Dr. Webb is running in a historically red district, but he hopes with his experience and his historic campaign, that he can bring in a slew of new voters this November. His priorities should he be elected include: expanding equal access healthcare, reforming our criminal justice system, working to update and improve our education system (including guaranteeing free community college / public university tuition for low-income families), and helping rebuild his district from the pandemic.