DeKalb County Advisory Roundtable with Mayor Beverly Burks, City of Clarkston

Join the Council for Quality Growth's DeKalb County Advisory Roundtable on May 7, 2026 at 8:30 AM.

Beverly Burks
Mayor
City of Clarkston
 
Beverly Burks was sworn in as the mayor of Clarkston, Georgia, the most diverse city per mile, on November 30, 2020. A native Georgian, Beverly has lived in Clarkston for 22 years. She is the first woman and the first person of color to serve as mayor of Clarkston.

Mayor Burks is a graduate of Alabama State University, where she received her B.S. Degree in Computer Information Systems. For more than 17 years, Beverly worked for several fortune 100 companies as a business consultant and technical manager. For over ten years, Ms. Burks served as Executive Director of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

As a Breast Cancer survivor and Health Advocate, she served as project coordinator for Clarkston COVID-19 Community Task Force and distributed nearly 20,000 masks to protect Clarkston's vulnerable population.
Clarkston has residents from over 50 countries and is known as the Ellis Island of the South. Mayor Burks works tirelessly to develop affordable housing solutions; support our businesses and residents financially suffering because of COVID-19; create transformational policing (community-centric); protect our environment; leverage partnerships and reduce health disparities and inequities.

Ms. Burks has been a member of various professional and community organizations, including the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP), DeKalb Democratic Party, and Leadership DeKalb - Class of 2020. In 2021, the Atlanta Business League selected Beverly as one of the Top 100 Black Women of Influence in Metro Atlanta.

She is the mother of one daughter, Kimberly