Steph Walker

Steph Walker

Steph Walker is a native of Wilmington and has served on the New Hanover County School Board since 2020. She proudly supports and values public education, which both she and her two children attended in New Hanover County.

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Steph Walker, a member of the New Hanover County Board of Education, shares how the Board's new right-wing majority is wielding power to ban books.

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