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Hi, I'm Michael, and I'm an Excelsior resident running for the Board of Supervisors in District 11 November 5 2024.

I love San Francisco. But it’s also broken.

I’m running to fight for a neglected district and fix our city.
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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


Public safety & clean streets

  • Fully staff the police department & arrest fentanyl dealers
  • 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 the 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, and root out corruption
  • Arrest fentanyl dealers, keep open air drug markets closed, & shut down fencing markets
  • Break up organized crime committing retail theft, car break-ins, etc.
More housing
  • Build more housing, and more affordable housing
  • Upzone along transit corridors
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
  • Bring back 8th grade algebra
  • Implement the science of reading
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

Read about me

I'm endorsed by

Attorney General
Rob Bonta
Treasurer
Fiona Ma
Senator
Scott Wiener
2020 Presidential Candidate
Andrew Yang
Assemblywoman
Buffy Wicks
Supervisor
Catherine Stefani
Supervisor
Joel Engardio
Supervisor
Matt Dorsey
Supervisor
Rafael Mendelman
Sheriff
Paul Miyamoto
Board of Education Commissioner
Jenny Lam
SF Democratic Party
Nancy Tung
Past Chair of the SF Democratic Party
Mary Jung
Assessor-Recorder
Joaquín Torres (#2)
UA 38
(#2)
Building & Construction Trades Council
(#2)
(#2)

Let's fix SF together

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