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Kimberly Alvarenga has worked for numerous community-based organizations for 20 years, including Bay Area Legal Aide, Bridge Housing Corporation and Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. In 2008, Alvarenga joined the office of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, where she was the district director for six years. During that time, Alvarenga played an active role in the campaign to Save City College of San Francisco, the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights and Seth’s Law. She is currently the political director of Service Employees International Union, which represents over 54,000 workers across Northern California.
Alvarenga’s work has included protecting Healthy San Francisco, fighting for $15 minimum wage and supporting small businesses. She lists her priorities as supporting education through free universal preschool; implementing a moratorium on pot clubs; restoring funding for McLaren Park, and other public spaces; and supporting investments in commercial corridors, more parking and transportation services, pedestrian services and affordable housing. She also wants the city to commit to opening by next year the Geneva Car Barn and Powerhouse, an office building and street car storage shed built in 1901 that is being renovated as a community and arts center.
“A product of San Francisco schools, I became the first college graduate in my family, thereafter following my passions for advocating for working families and underrepresented communities. District 11 is my home where my wife, linnette, and I are raising our son,” Alvarenga said in her candidate statement. “We all deserve to live in safe, healthy, thriving neighborhoods and receive our fair share of city services.”
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Magdalena De Guzman has been a San Francisco school district teacher for more than 23 years, an elected official of the teachers union for seven years and has been twice elected to the city’s labor council. De Guzman has also been an elected delegate to state and national conventions for educators, and in 2012, she co-founded Filipino Educators of San Francisco, which provides scholarships to Filipino high school seniors. Born in the Philippines, De Guzman immigrated to the United States at the age of fourteen, and came to San Francisco after earning undergraduate degrees in business and management, and music from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She holds a master’s degree in multicultural education from the University of San Francisco. Her priorities include expanding community services for students and seniors, supporting affordable housing and creating a cleaner, safer district.
“As your next supervisor, I want our citizens, city departments and nonprofit organizations to have frequent dialogs to address all concerns regarding safe streets and safe neighborhood, and to build trust,” she said on her website. “This is how we will come up with effective solutions to make our neighborhood safe—when all the stakeholders are working together.
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Berta Hernandez, a member of the Left Party, an international socialist organization, is running to be the city’s first socialist supervisor. After moving to San Francisco from Mexico in 1987, Hernandez worked for numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Real Alternatives program, San Francisco Suicide Prevention and the San Francisco Aids Foundation, where she was briefly a member of its Board of Directors. She is a health educator for the Instituto Familiar de la Raza.
Her priorities include taxing large downtown businesses to fund community services; developing an elected community council “to disburse funds and supervise the supervisor”; supporting municipal voting rights for non-citizens, felons and youth fourteen and older; securing affordable housing by ending evictions; abolishing the police department; protecting undocumented immigrants by “ending deportations and detentions”; and providing free public transit and city jobs at union wages to “retrofit our infrastructure to fight climate change.”
Hernandez also wants to focus on LGBTQ rights, reparations to Native Americans and African Americans, local health services, legalize drugs alongside providing treatment for addiction, and “to make all evictions illegal, to freeze and roll back outrageous rents, and to legalize homeless encampments” for housing security.
“For decades, the political establishment in San Francisco has served the interests of real estate developers, tech companies and big banks. Its representatives no longer even pretend to care about workers, immigrants and people of color forced to leave the City by outrageous rents and the epidemic of evictions,” Hernandez said in her official candidate statement, “We must reverse the gentrification that has made our city uninhabitable.”
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Francisco Herrera made a name for himself when he ran for mayor in 2015, finishing as first runner up behind Mayor Ed Lee. Herrera’s agenda is consistent with his agenda in the 2015 mayoral race, with an emphasis on affordable housing and housing security. Herrera is a longtime Mission District resident, community activist and musician, who moved to San Francisco from Calexico, Imperial County, in 1983 to attend a Jesuit seminary.
“‘Liveability’ of working families in the district is my goal,” Herrera said in his candidate statement. His priorities include free City College tuition for low-income families; access to public health for seniors; local living-wage jobs; supporting worker rights, art programs and public transportation. He also would focus on refurbishing parks, ensuring police accountability, providing economic opportunities for at-risk youth and supporting the cultural heritage of the district.
“In my 30 years of service with San Francisco with working families I have seen the leadership of our city permit evasion of taxes by corporations, as the people of our neighborhoods are ignored yet continue working for a healthy city for seniors, our children’s education, our parks, arts and culture, better wages and healthy conditions at work,” Herrera said in his candidate statement.
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Ahsha Safai campaigned for supervisor in 2008 and came in second to Supervisor John Avalos.
He began working in public service as an aide to a city councilor in his hometown, Cambridge, Mass.. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in political science and African-American studies, Safai worked in the Clinton administration as an assistant to Loretta T. Avent, Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Liaison to Native Americans. Safai moved to San Francisco in 2000 and joined the city’s Housing Authority under Mayor Willie Brown. In 2003, he joined Gavin Newsom’s campaign for mayor before serving in the Mayor’s Office of Community Development and in the Department of Public Works. Since 2008, Safai has been the political director for the San Francisco Janitors Union and the principal of Kitchen Cabinet Public Affairs. He holds a master’s degree in city planning from MIT.
Safai said his work in the past 12 years has included protecting the Mission Childcare Consortium, revitalizing Balboa Park, rebuilding St. Luke’s Hospital and “limit[ing] the spread of medical cannabis dispensaries.” His priorities include building affordable housing, revitalizing commercial corridors, supporting local business and ensuring clean and safe neighborhoods.
“As a city planner and now a labor organizer for the Janitors and Teamsters Unions—I see firsthand how many families struggle,” Safai said in his candidate statement. “Over 20 labor unions endorsed me because they know I’m dedicated to a more just San Francisco that works for everyone.”
Ranked-choice voting
Under the city’s ranked-choice voting, if no candidate initially receives 50 percent plus one, the top three candidates according to voters’ preferences face instant runoffs to determine the winner.
Our methodology
The Public Press chose to count endorsements from organizations that backed multiple candidates or ballot measures, and that made those endorsements available online. We did not count endorsements from individuals.
Some organizations endorsed a first and second choice for candidates in some races. Those preferences are not represented here.
If you think we missed an important organization, please tell us. We’d love to hear from you.
Tracked Endorsements by Organization
Published: Oct. 14, 2016
