As Vice Mayor, I'm accessible and proactive in engaging with the community. I'm committed to working with you to enact state policy that's equitable and fair. COVID-19 presented personal challenges and loss, and affected how we live. I've provided steady leadership and innovative thinking during these challenging times, with a focus on a just economic recovery. We need affordable, quality housing options for all residents at all income levels. School district teachers and employees, local workers, and seniors and families experiencing homelessness will have new affordable housing options at Alameda Point. I established a model collaboration with non-profits, community and faith-based organizations, and local government to provide mental health, drug treatment and job training services to the unhoused. I've worked to cap annual rent increases and enact just cause tenant protections, raise the minimum wage and address climate change and sea level rise. I encouraged creation of a community-led effort to examine police policy and tactics and root out inherent racism. I'll continue to stand up, speak out and be a force for racial justice. I have deep roots here. I was born in Alameda, grew up in San Leandro, swimming with the Drowning Darryls and went to high school in Oakland, rowing for the Strokes. My record of accomplishment and experience as Vice Mayor, and my perspective as a mom to two young children, is needed in the Assembly.

• Housing – I support efforts to build housing at all income levels, removing exclusionary zoning and increasing funding for affordable and transitional housing to assist our unhoused neighbors.
• Equity – The COVID 19 Pandemic has exacerbated the economic inequities that already existed and disproportionately impacted women and BIPOC communities. We need to expand access to quality health care for all, ensure that our neighborhood schools stay open, address food insecurity, provide affordable childcare, reinvest in the social services we know help people succeed, and help our workers return to work safely.
• Justice Reform – As a Councilmember, I led the way in demilitarizing our police, reimagining policing, and unbundling services and reinvesting in our community through a community led process that centered BIPOC voices. I intend to continue this work in the state legislature.

I have spent my entire career fighting for worker's rights and working families. I am passionate about housing. environmental justice, and creating a more equitable and just society. As a woman of color with two young children, I know how important quality education and early childhood development are to our societal well-being, which is why I will fight to fully fund education and make quality child care accessible and affordable for all families.

Color of Law (Richard Rothstein), The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacob’s), The People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn), Women Race and Class (Angela Davis)

I am a thoughtful, hardworking, smart, values-based leader.

Growing up in the East Bay, I remember the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989) and Oakland Hills Firestorm (1991). I was 5 years old when the maze collapsed as a result of the earthquake. I remember my mom running around the house to shut off the gas and how happy we were when my dad finally made it home from work. I was 7 when many of my friends had to evacuate their homes due to the fires, and our family friends stayed with us when they were forced to flee.

It is hard to pick one book - but I enjoy novels. Pride & Prejudice for when I feel like reading a witty female lead and The Count of Monte Christo because I have always enjoyed the plot twists and cheering on Edmond Dantes.

1. Housing/Homelessness 2. Climate Change 3. The growing wealth gap.

We must ensure robust and inclusive public input and a final map that reflects that input. Expertise, education, and inclusion are vital to achieving this.

Expertise - Knowledge, experience and expertise matter. Under normal circumstances, redistricting requires special knowledge. This year, new laws governing redistricting, the compressed schedule and the ongoing effects of COVID make the process especially challenging. Hiring an expert consultant allows staff to focus on equitable input through education and outreach.

Education - Community education needs to start early. It takes time to engage hard-to-reach communities of interest and explain what redistricting is.

Inclusion - It is vitally important that the final map reflects community recommendations. Multi-faceted engagement is critical for inclusion, as is early publication of meeting dates and draft documents.

Appropriations, Judiciary, Housing and Community Development, and Public Safety