Marquita Bradshaw (born January 19, 1974) is an American environmentalist, activist, and political candidate. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee, the first African American woman to win a major political party nomination in any statewide race in Tennessee. Marquita is native to Tennessee. She is a Memphian who has extensive experience in the environmental justice movement. Marquita grew up in South Memphis and is an alumna of university of Memphis. As a single working-class mother, she raised her son in Tennessee. She unsuccessfully ran in the 2024 Senate election, losing the Democratic primary to Gloria Johnson.
Bradshaw was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. During her childhood, her family was active in raising awareness of pollution leaking from the Memphis Defense Depot, a contaminated military base in a largely African American neighborhood of Memphis that became a Superfund site in 1992. She earned a Bachelor of Liberal Studies in journalism and communication studies from the University of Memphis. She is the environmental justice committee chair of the Sierra Club's Tennessee chapter.