MEET CLLR SAM HARPER-WALLIS
HISTORY
Early Life
Sam was brought up by his mother and father in Stourbridge, he attended Greenfields school and left in 2004. During this time Sam was diagnosed with Dyslexia, a former teacher of Sam's told him that he would never achieve any GCSE qualifications.
Sam went on to attend Wolverhampton Grammar School, as they provided additional support to Dyslexic students. Sam left the School in 2009, having completed his GCSE's, obtaining 4 A's, 2 B's, and 1 C.
After completing his GCSE's, Sam attended Haybridge Sixth Form College, where he studied A-Level Computing, Business Studies, Chemistry, and Biology. Here, he was able to achieve enough UCAS points to attend Manchester Metropolitan University.
Manchester
Sam attended Manchester Metropolitan University where he studied Cellular Molecular Biology for 4 years. During University, Sam joined the Liberal Democrats party.
After University, Sam began work in a Manchester based start up, Teachers Register, as a Digital Product Manager. He then moved to another digital agency, JB Cole, to continue his career as a Digital Project Manager.
Having spent 7 years in Manchester, Sam returned home to the West Midlands.
Back Home
Sam has 8 years of experience in project management working in digital agencies across the West Midlands. Sam is currently Head of Project Management of Worcester based digital marketing agency.
Sam became a home owner in Penkridge in October 2021. Just before completion day, Sam proposed to the love of his life Hannah, and she said yes!
Values
Transparency
Sam believes that transparency should be at the heart of anything involving politics. Without transparency, integrity can be called into question, a lack of which destroys and weakens our amazing democracy.
Sam has made a commitment to advertise all meetings where he is representing his residents on this website.
Freedom
As a pure liberal Sam believes in complete personal freedom, so long as none of the individuals action effects another's freedom.
Regardless of opinion, he will always protect the people's right to free speech, and where possible, allow individuals to live their lives as freely as possible.
Kindness
Kindness is what makes us great.
Without kindness there would be no society. Sharing and caring for each other is the bedrock of the human experience.
Sam is led by this value in all the decisions he makes, both personally and professionally.
As a Liberal Democrat candidate Sam also follows the values set out in the parties constitution found here: https://www.libdems.org.uk/constitution