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
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.
Founding team of Minerva, a new 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 Lunar New Year Lantern Festival in Geneva Carbarn

And public servant

Won a seat on the SF DCCC in March 2024, as the #1 fundraiser among first time candidates, recruiting 72 volunteers
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
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.

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

It reminds me of where I grew up, and where I want to raise my future kids. I'll bring my education, business, and community background to fight for my 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
Increase street cleanups by partnering with Community Benefit Districts

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 50 vacancies on Mission Street and recruit marquee businesses
Add housing & street festivals (like Chow Fun) to new residents 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
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 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

Streamline 130+ commissions
Reform procurement & city hiring
Pass charter reform

Fight climate change