Resume Notes
- • Chair, longest-standing Commission on Common Ownership in Maryland (Montgomery County)
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A Career Supporting Communities and Homeowners
Cheryl Butler-Walker has spent more than three decades working inside the communities most people only talk about. Her career has not been spent in boardrooms issuing recommendations. It has been spent on the ground, in apartment complexes, in coalition meetings, in county offices, and at kitchen tables, solving real problems for real people.
She brings that same approach to Charles County.
Through that work, Cheryl has built relationships that span the local and state levels of government. She has advised community leaders, collaborated with local officials, and helped connect residents with the resources they need to navigate complex development and planning decisions.
at a glance:
- Chaired, longest-standing Commission on Common Ownership in Maryland (Montgomery County) Cheryl continues to serve as a sitting commissioner and provide substantive advice .
- Inaugural Commissioner, Prince George’s County Commission on Common Ownership Communities
- Founded the only Builders Roundtable in Maryland
- Sitting Trustee, Maryland Affordable Housing Trust
- Supported the Plumbing Poverty Act — bringing public plumbing to Nanjemoy, Charles County
- Appointed to Charles County HOA Dispute Review Board, July 2024
- Co-founded Route 202 Coalition, PG County’s first multi-disciplinary community confederation
- Led job training initiative placing 54 unemployed Oxon Hill residents into meaningful work
- Founded Peace Productions, 1989 — Stop the Violence, Stay in School campaigns
SOLutions in practice:
Building coalitions that stuck.
In the mid-1990s, working inside some of the most challenging apartment communities in Landover, Cheryl co-founded the Route 202 Coalition with State Senator Joanne C. Benson. It became one of the first multi-disciplinary confederations in Prince George’s County history, bringing together elected officials, county government, and civic organizations around a single table to solve community problems together.
Bringing basic services to Charles County residents who had been overlooked.
As a tenured Trustee of the Maryland Affordable Housing Trust, Cheryl supported the Plumbing Poverty Act, which gave Nanjemoy residents in Charles County the opportunity to restore their wells and introduced public plumbing to a historic community that had gone without it for far too long. That is the kind of result that does not make headlines. It just changes lives.
Putting unemployed residents back to work.
Connecting vulnerable families to stable housing.
Through a partnership with the National Coalition for the Homeless, Cheryl created the Healthy Homes for the Homeless campaign at Edgewood Management. She also launched after-school tutorial programs in partnership with Prince George’s County Public Schools, giving children in those communities academic support that most took for granted elsewhere.
Giving young people somewhere to go.
In 1989, Cheryl founded Peace Productions, a youth-focused promotions company built on a simple idea: give young people a positive alternative. She produced Stop the Violence and Stay in School campaigns at Oxon Hill High School and created Peace in the Street Jams with WPGC and Street Jams with WKYS, bringing national talent into local communities. Nike backed it. The school system supported it. The community showed up.
Meeting the Challenges of a Growing District
In growing areas like Waldorf, development has often moved faster than the infrastructure needed to support it. Roads are strained, schools and public safety facilities must keep pace, and homeowners deserve assurance that growth strengthens, rather than overwhelms, the neighborhoods they have invested in.
With homeownership rates among the highest in the state, residents of District 2 want leadership that understands the realities of community living. Cheryl’s experience working directly with homeowner associations and condominium communities gives her a ground-level perspective on the issues families face every day.
As County Commissioner, Cheryl will focus on smarter growth, stronger community partnerships, and ensuring that infrastructure, schools, and services keep pace with development. She will also advocate at the state level for the transportation and infrastructure investments Charles County needs.
Cheryl believes that when communities are heard, respected, and properly planned, everyone benefits; from longtime homeowners to the next generation of families who will call Charles County home.
