Fixing SF requires bold, optimistic leadership

I'm a first generation Chinese immigrant.

My parents and I came to the US with $100, and through education and hard work, achieved the American Dream.

I went to public schools, played sports at my local YMCA, and got financial aid at Harvard.

Ten years ago, I moved to SF to build new schools and give every child the opportunity to reach their full potential.

I'm an educator

Volunteer Head Start preschool teacher in the Tenderloin, and at Tel-Hi
Directed a student teaching program and volunteer taught 4th, 5th, and 8th grade

A school builder

Founded Tinycare, a new model for daycare that provides housing for teachers, raising $17.9M and expanding to 30+ locations across SF Bay Area and Arizona during COVID
Founding team of Minerva, a new nonprofit university with 7 global campuses, named #1 World's Most Innovative University

Community organizer

Organize Lunar calendar events bringing Asian Americans together to connect to heritage, including Qingming Festival in McLaren Park and Mid-Autumn & Lunar New Year Lantern Festival in Geneva Carbarn

And public servant

Won a seat on the SF Democratic Party (DCCC) in March 2024
Coordinated volunteers to write thousands of GOTV letters for the Georgia special election in 2020

Working to make SF better for all

Serve on the board of Wu Yee Children’s Services, the largest Head Start provider in the city with two centers in D11
Organized monthly volunteering serving breakfast at Glide in the Tenderloin

I will fight to keep the American Dream alive in District 11

5 years ago, an architect friend asked if I wanted to help build a childcare center in a new development in the Excelsior. Now, I serve on the Board of the Wu Yee Head Start Center in the basement of that building.

District 11 (Excelsior, Outer Mission, Crocker Amazon, and OMI) is one of the last places of affordability in SF — where teachers and firefighters live next to software engineers and small business owners. Just like where I grew up.

Where Chinese, Mexican, Filipino, Italian, Irish, and African American residents go to the same schools & churches together, and open small businesses on Mission, Ocean, & Geneva.

I know what it's like to be neglected and forgotten, and District 11 reminds me of home — the only place in SF I have found the same diversity & community I value. I was given the opportunity to succeed, and I want that for all District 11 kids. I'll bring my education, business, and community background to run through walls for this district.

My priorities for district 11

Less crime & cleaner streets

Fully staff the police department, arrest fentanyl dealers, & stop car break-ins & retail theft by passing Prop 36
Improve pedestrian safety by increasing traffic enforcement & adding stop-lights and cameras
Enforce illegal dumping fines, add more trash cans, & powerwash our merchant corridors

Build workforce housing

Build more housing for first responders — teachers, firefighters, police officers

Increase affordable childcare

Use 2018 Baby Prop C money to create more subsidized infant & toddler care in our district with the most kids

Help small businesses

Cut permit times and red tape for small businesses
Fill the 47 vacancies on Mission & Geneva, 17 on Ocean, and revitalize Randolph/Broad & San Jose
Add housing & street festivals (like Chow Fun) to increase foot traffic

My priorities for fixing San Francisco

Public safety is #1

Recruit a fully staffed police department, cut their administrative burden, & hold them accountable
Arrest fentanyl dealers, keep open air drug markets closed, & shut down fencing markets
Break up organized crime committing retail theft, car break-ins, etc. & pass Prop 36

More housing

Build more housing, and more affordable housing
Upzone along transit corridors & permit reform to DBI

Pathways out of addiction & homelessness

Get people into drug treatment
Change conservatorship laws to help those with psychiatric disorders
Build more shelter bed capacity

Great schools, from pre-k-12th grade

Stabilize District 11 schools & make sure they have fully staffed teachers
Teach the science of reading, 8th grade algebra build teacher housing

A revitalized downtown

Rezone downtown from commercial to residential
Incentivize artists & shops
Add a university campus extension or a healthcare campus

Small business streamlining

Reduce regulations to empower small businesses

Governance reforms

SF has 130 commissions while LA has 60. Streamline commissions.
Reform city hiring so it doesn't take 6 months - 1 year
Pass charter reform

Fight climate change