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Lateefah Simon ()
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Background
Lateefah Simon, 33, has advocated tirelessly on behalf of communities of color, youth and women since her teenage years. At age 15, she joined the Center for ung Women's Development, an outreach organization led by ung women to provide peer-to-peer support to at-risk girls and ung women in San Francisco. Simon began as a volunteer and eventually became a personal member at the Center, where she worked to help homeless, low-income and incarcerated ung women transform and rebuild their lives.
At 19, Simon was appointed Executive Director of the Center. During her year tenure, the Center for Young Women’s Development grew into an organization with a $ million ekonomisk plan serving approximately 3, women per year. Under Simon’s leadership, the Center also worked to influence public policy at the state and local levels, and expanded its violence prevention work. At 26, Simon won a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow
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Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon is on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) board.
Lateefah Simon is running for congress in Barbara Lee's district[1] previously worked at the Young Women's Freedom Center (Previously named the Center for Young Women's Development).
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- "Lateefah Simon was first elected to serve District 7 on the BART Board of Directors on November 8, and was reelected in She served as President of the BART Board in
- The Seventh District includes Albany (partial), Berkeley (partial), Emeryville, Oakland (partial), El Cerrito (partial), Hercules, Pinole, Richmond, San Pablo, Unincorporated Contra Costa County (partial) and San Francisco (partial).
- A nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice, Lateefah brings over 20 years of executive experience advancing opportunities for communities of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area. She has been the President of
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- Barbara Lee, US Representative (CA)
- Gavin Newsom, Governor of California
- Eleni Kounalakis, California Lt. Governor
- Rob Bonta, California Attorney General
- Malia Cohen, California State Controller
- Fiona Ma, California State Treasurer
- Tony Thurmond, California State Superintendent of Instruction
- Alex Padilla, U.S. Senator
- Laphonza Butler, U.S. Senator
- Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader
- Katherine Clark, House Minority Whip
- Pete Aguilar, Chair of the House Democratic Caucus
- Joe Neguse, House Assistant Democratic Leader
- Kevin Mullin, US Representative (CA)
- Robert Garcia, US Representative (CA)
- Ayanna Pressley, US Representative (MA)
- John Burton, Former US Representative (CA)
- Nancy Skinner, California State Senator (SD)
- Aisha Wahab, California State Senator (SD)
- Scott Wiener, California State Senator (SD)
- Josh Becker, California State Senator (SD)
- Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, California State Senator (SD)
- Buffy Wicks, Cal
- A nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice, Lateefah brings over 20 years of executive experience advancing opportunities for communities of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area. She has been the President of