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About Carly
WHO SHE IS
Carly Rose Hammond is a 28-year-old community and union organizer whose family has lived in the Saginaw Bay for five generations. She moved to the City of Saginaw three years ago to invest in the community and make a stand for change. As a small business owner in Saginaw, she understands the need for growth. Carly has worked in environmental justice, policy advocacy, and youth voting engagement and served on Saginaw’s Zoning Board of Appeals. She is a proud union member of Teamsters 243 and serves as steward and bargaining representative.
DRIVEN
Carly attended Frankenmuth High School, graduating as a member of the National Honors' Society. She earned a full-tuition academic scholarship to Oakland University, where she studied for three years. On January 30, 2017, Carly was in a serious car accident on the way home from school in snowy weather. Her survival sparked a life change- dedicating herself to the calling of community organizing and political work. She then returned to school after four years, completing her Bachelors' Degree in History in 2022 while working full-time as a union organizer. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and received the prestigious 2023 Human Relations Award, given to one student every graduating year for outstanding civic engagement and leadership.
PASSIONATE
In her work alongside labor unions, she works to better the lives and livelihoods of working people. She is a strong advocate for democracy in the workplace, and has aided several workplaces in their fights to form a union and win a fair contract. Carly supports striking workers, whose fights for better wages and workplace dignity benefit the whole community. She has walked the line in dozens of pickets, including BCTGM's 2021 strike against Kellogg, UNITE HERE's GLBCRC 2022 strike for recognition, and UAW's 2019 and 2023 Stand Up strikes.
LEADER
As a community and political organizer, Carly Rose Hammond has stood up for struggling families and vulnerable communities. She organized protests in 2017 and 2018 to pressure Michigan's legislature to fund water relief to Flint residents during their water crisis. In 2021, she led a coalition to halt water shutoffs in the City of Saginaw during COVID. Carly worked with nineteen civil rights and water justice organizations to procure a formal condemnation of Saginaw's planned shutoffs and punitive fines of 750 families. Three days later, the City of Saginaw issued an indefinite water shutoff moratorium. She is ready to fight for Saginaw residents every day as a member of the City Council.
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