Molly Rawn currently serves as the CEO of Experience Fayetteville, the city's destination marketing organization. In her role, she oversees a substantial budget of 4.8 million dollars and manages a team of 19 full-time employees. Under her leadership, the city has experienced remarkable tourism growth, achieving its highest HMR tax collection month to date. Rawn also played a pivotal role in leading the team that successfully organized the 2022 Walmart UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship, marking the second occurrence of the event on U.S. soil in the past 72 years.
Rawn played a key role on the leadership team responsible for launching the Scott Family Amazeum, an interactive museum located in Bentonville. While serving as Director of Development and Communications, she successfully managed the museum's 28.5 million-dollar capital campaign, ensuring its successful completion.
"I am invested in the future of Fayetteville and believe our city’s best days lie ahead of us."
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MOLLY RAWN
“By investing in whole-city initiatives and forward-thinking urban planning, we can create a city that is not just prepared for growth but thrives on it.”
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After growing up in Paragould and Little Rock, Rawn relocated to Fayetteville to attend the University of Arkansas. She and her husband, Jeremy, have three children: Collier, Miller, and Opal. She is passionate about community engagement, community building and expanding opportunities for women in civic leadership.
Family is everything.
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Why am I running?
"I am invested in the future of Fayetteville and believe our city’s best days lie ahead of us. Current leadership has grown complacent, and too many residents are being left behind. Our city has too many residents without homes or at risk of losing their homes. Our most vulnerable population lacks access to reliable transportation.
I want to show my daughter and other young women that city government is a place for them. Fayetteville, generally regarded as our state's most progressive city, has yet to elect a woman mayor and adopt a meaningful parental leave policy.
I have thought about running for mayor for several years. The moment I decided for sure to enter the race was in late summer 2023 when the city had the opportunity to apply for several million dollars in HUD funding that could have been put to work to address housing policy and help some of our most vulnerable, unsheltered community members. The vote to apply for funding was tied, and the current mayor declined to cast a vote to break the tie, meaning Fayetteville never had the opportunity to receive this much-needed funding."