Cora Faith Walker (née Drew; November 5, 1984 – March 11, 2022) was an American politician who served as a member of the

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for the 74th district from January 2017 to July 2019. On July 29, 2019, Walker resigned from the Missouri House of Representatives and became the policy director for St. Louis County executive Sam Page. Walker earned a Bachelor of Arts from the

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, a Master of Public Health from Washington University's

George Warren Brown School of Social Work The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis is a school for the training of social science researchers. The Brown School offers a Master of Social Work (MSW), a Master of Public Health (MPH), a Master of Social Policy, a PhD in Socia ...

and a

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and health law certificate from the

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. Walker lived in

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. On March 11, 2022, Walker collapsed at a hotel in St. Louis, where she had attended a birthday party for Mayor

Tishaura Jones Tishaura Oneda Jones ( ; born March 10, 1972) is an American politician who has served as the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri since April 2021. A member of the Missouri Democratic Party, Jones served from 2008 to 2013 in the Missouri House of Rep ...

. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, aged 37. The cause of death was determined to have been non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

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