Warwick Sabin (born 1976) is a former
Democratic member of the
Arkansas House of Representatives
The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...
who represented the 33rd district. The 33rd includes
Hillcrest, Leawood,
Briarwood,
Hall High
Hall High is a neighborhood located in the central portion of Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a largely residential area to the west of Pulaski Heights, Little Rock, Arkansas, Pulaski Heights, and south of Tanglewood, Little Rock, Arkansas, Tanglewood ...
,
Capitol View/Stifft's Station, Downtown and the
Arkansas State Capitol Building. Representative Sabin was a candidate for Mayor in the
2018 Little Rock mayoral election. Though initially leading in the polls and being the leader in fundraising, he lost the election to Frank Scott Jr.
He also served as senior director of U.S. Programs a
Winrock International
Early life
Sabin was born in
New York City
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. In 1993, he was chosen to represent New York State at
Boys Nation
Boys Nation is an annual forum concerning civic training, government, leadership, and Americanism that is run by the American Legion. One hundred Boys Nation Senators are chosen from a pool of over 20,000 Boys State participants, making it one o ...
, where he met President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
in the White House Rose Garden 30 years to the day after Clinton, as the Arkansas delegate to Boys Nation, met President
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...
. Sabin went on to attend the
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and the largest university in the state. Founded as Arkansas ...
, and graduated in 1998 ''summa cum laude'' as valedictorian with a degree in
political science
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. He was also elected president of the student government, and during his tenure Sabin led a successful campaign to have all schools in the University of Arkansas System officially observe the federal holiday honoring Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1997 he won the
Harry S. Truman Scholarship
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, and in 1998 he was named to the USA Today Academic All-Star Team and won the
Marshall Scholarship
The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for "intellectually distinguished young Americans ndtheir country's future leaders" to study at any university in the United Kingdom. It is widely considered one of the most prestigious sc ...
for study at the
University of Oxford
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. While in England, Sabin was the speechwriter to U.S. Ambassador
Philip Lader
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. During the summer of 1999, he was an intern at ''
Foreign Affairs
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'' magazine. He left Oxford in June 2000 with a
Master of Arts
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in
philosophy, politics and economics.
Professional career
Sabin went from Oxford to
Washington, D.C.
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, where he was press secretary for then
U.S. Representative
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Robert Marion Berry
Robert Marion Berry (born August 27, 1942) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Early life, education and career
Born in Stuttgart, Arkansas, Berry was raised ...
. In March 2002, he moved to
Little Rock
( The "Little Rock")
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to accept the position of director of development for the William J.
Clinton Foundation
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. Two years later, Sabin became Associate Editor of the ''
Arkansas Times
''Arkansas Times'', a weekly alternative newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a publication that has circulated more than 40 years, originally as a magazine.
Founded as a small magazine on newsprint in 1977 by publisher Alan Leveritt, i ...
'', where he wrote cover stories and a weekly opinion column. During this time, he co-hosted a program on Arkansas public television called "Unconventional Wisdom".
In 2007, he took the post of Associate Vice President for Communications at the
University of Central Arkansas
The University of Central Arkansas (Central Arkansas or UCA) is a public university in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1907 as the Arkansas State Normal School, the university is one of the oldest in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As the state's only n ...
. Early in 2008, he was appointed Publisher of the ''
Oxford American
The ''Oxford American'' is a quarterly magazine that focuses on the American South.
First publication
The magazine was begun in late 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi, by Marc Smirnoff (born July 11, 1963).
The name "Oxford American" is a play on ''T ...
'' after the magazine was the victim of an embezzlement.
Sabin was named to the FOLIO:40 list in 2009, and the ''Oxford American'' won the National Magazine Award for Video in 2011.
Sabin announced in August 2013 that he was leaving the ''Oxford American'' to create the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, where he served as the founding executive director until the Innovation Hub became part of Winrock International in June 2016, and he was named senior director of U.S. Programs.
He writes for ''
The Huffington Post
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'' and serves on the board of directors for the Center for a Better South. He received the University of Arkansas Young Alumni Award in 2005 and was named to the Arkansas Business "40 Under 40" in 2003, and he has volunteered and served on the boards of directors for numerous community and nonprofit organizations and projects in Little Rock, including the Public Education Foundation, Little Rock Workforce Investment Board, Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families and the Arkansas Literacy Councils. He is married to Jessica DeLoach Sabin.
Arkansas House of Representatives
In 2012, Sabin was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 33, which includes downtown Little Rock and other neighborhoods. Both ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' columnist John Brummett as well as ''Talk Business Quarterly'' named him among the top ten legislators of the 2013 legislative session, and the ''Arkansas Times'' called him the "Freshman of the session". Sabin was elected Chair of the 41-member bi-partisan Freshmen Caucus for the 89th General Assembly (2013–14) and he now holds the position of Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore for the 90th General Assembly (2015–16). In 2014, he was named a 2014
Aspen Institute
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Rodel Fellow, and in 2015 he was named a winner of the NewDEAL "New Ideas Challenge" for his Working Families Opportunity Act.
In the
2018 elections
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Africa
*2018 Djiboutian parliamentary election 23 February 2018
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, Sabin ran for
mayor
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of Little Rock. He finished in third place in the nonpartisan election, missing the
runoff election
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, behind eventual winner
Frank Scott Jr. and Baker Kurrus.
References
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American magazine publishers (people)
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Politicians from New York City
Politicians from Little Rock, Arkansas
Marshall Scholars
1976 births
21st-century American politicians