Svante Myrick

Svante Myrick
Mayor of Ithaca
In office January 1, 2012 – February 6, 2022
Preceded by	Carolyn K. Peterson
Succeeded by	Laura Lewis (Acting)
Personal details
Born	(1987-03-15) March 15, 1987 (age 37) Florida, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Cornell University (AB)

Svante L. Myrick (born March 15, 1987)^[1] is an American politician who formerly served as the mayor of Ithaca, New York. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Raised in the town of Earlville, New York, Myrick was elected to the Ithaca Common Council in 2007 while he was a student at Cornell University. After graduating from Cornell in 2009, Myrick ran for mayor of Ithaca in 2011; he defeated two candidates in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 54.9% of the vote. Upon taking office in 2012 at age 24, Myrick became the city's youngest mayor and its first mixed race mayor. Myrick is known for his 2016 proposal to create a city-run supervised heroin injection site. He was re-elected in 2015 and 2019. On January 5, 2022, Myrick announced that he had accepted an offer to serve as Executive Director of People For the American Way. On January 1, 2023, Myrick assumed the role of president and CEO of People For the American Way.^[2]