- Occupation: Director, Office of Human Relations and Diversity Affairs
 - Resource Development Director, Alameda County Social Services
 - Multicultural Multilingual Coordinator, Alameda County
 - Oakland City Planning Commissioner
 - Oakland Human Relations Commissioner
 - Commissioner, State Commission on the Prevention of Hate Crimes
 - Former ethnic studies instructor at several California colleges and universities
  
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Top Priorities if Elected |   
- Increase resources to children and family services
 - Expand job creation and training; enhance business attraction and retention
 - Tackle transportation problems
  
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- Business Attraction & Retention
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The regional economy is experiencing a "boom" and we have to be positioned to take advantage of it.  Here are some of my plans:
 - Cityhood for Castro Valley
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Castro Valley requires local governance so that residents have full representation and input into their own local affairs.
 - Economic Development & Revitalization
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Economic development in both suburban and rural areas of the county is happening without a master plan to control it.  We need to coordinate development and revitalization efforts from a regional perspective.
  
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- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
 - Latino Democratic Club
 - Valley Times Newspaper
  
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