Endorsements for Loren Taylor for Oakland Mayor

The San Francisco Chronicle

East Bay Times

The Mercury News

Elected Officials and Members of Public Boards and Commissions

Libby Schaaf
Oakland Mayor

London Breed
San Francisco Mayor

Sam Liccardo
San Jose Mayor

Darrell Steinberg
Sacramento Mayor

Michael Tubbs
Former Stockton Mayor

Willie Brown
Former San Francisco Mayor

Keith Carson
Alameda County Board of Supervisors, District 5 and Board President

Nate Miley (#2)
Alameda County Board of Supervisors, District 4

Don Perata
Former California State Senator and Assemblymember

Joe Simitian
Supervisor, Santa Clara County

Pat Kernighan
Former Oakland City Councilmember

Ben Bartlett
Councilmember, City of Berkeley

Gary Yee
Oakland Unified School District Director, District 4

Jody London
Former Oakland Unified School District Director, District 1

Nina Senn
Former Oakland Unified School District Director, District 4

James Harris
Former Oakland Unified School District Director, District 7

Jumoke Hinton
Former Oakland Unified School District Director, District 3

LK Monroe
Alameda County Superintendent of Public Education

Amber Childress
Alameda County Board of Education, Retired

Joel Young
AC Transit Director

Mark Williams
Former AC Transit Director

Carol Wyatt
District 3 Representative, Community Policing Advisory Board

Oakland Community Leaders

Amanda Feinstein
Education Advocate

Chris Chatmon
Former Director, Oakland Unified School District Office of African American Male Achievement

Christine Quan
President, Sequoyah Hills Homeowners Association

Cynthia Adams
Vice President, Oakland NAACP

Dan Quigley
Chair, Hillcrest Estates Improvement Association

Daryel Dunsten
Former Homelessness Administrator, City of Oakland

Dee Johnson
Founder and Executive Director, Lend A Hand Foundation

Elinor Buchen
Former Board Member, The Youth Employment Partnership

Erick Bell
Chairman & Executive Director, Accounting Career Awareness Program

John Bliss
Past President, Oakland Parks & Recreation Foundation

Mother Brown
District 6 Resident

Richard Scott
Health & Wellness Committee Chair, 100 Black Men of the Bay Area

Rob Gitin
Founder and Executive Director, At The Crossroads

Oakland Faith Leaders

Bishop Charley Hames, Jr.,
Bishop, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Pastor Curtis Robinson
Pastor, Faith Baptist Church

Pastor Douglass Fitch
Former Senior Pastor, GLIDE Memorial Church (SF)

Bishop George Mathews
Bishop, Church of God in Christ

Pastor Jacqueline Thompson
Senior Pastor, Allen Temple Baptist Church

Father Jayson Landeza
Father, St. Benedict’s Church

Bishop Mario Gaines
Bishop, Church of God in Christ

Rev. Terrence Dwyer
Chaplain, Kaiser Permanente

Pastor Walter Culp, Jr.
Pastor, Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church

Oakland Environmental Leaders

Jennie Gerard
Former Senior Vice President, The Trust for Public Land

Kathy Dywer
Project Manager, Friends of Lincoln Square Park

Ted Radosevich
Board of Directors, John Muir Land Trust

Oakland Education Leaders

Karen Bradley
Teacher, Head-Royce School

Megan Bacigalupi
Founder & Executive Director, CA Parent Power

Oral Lee Brown
Founder, Oral Lee Brown Foundation

Erick Bell
Chairman & Executive Director, Accounting Career Awareness Program

Denise Palmer
Teacher, Joaquin Miller Elementary School

Lloyd Schine
Director, Bay Scholars

Katie McClane
Former Principal, Oakland Unified School District

Sarah Green
Principal, Joaquin Miller Elementary School

Mya Whitaker
Bay Area Urban Debate League

Jerry Bailey
Teacher, McClymonds High School

Linda Taylor
Retired Teacher & Principal, Oakland Unified School District

Oakland Health Leaders

Justin Taylor
Physician, Kaiser Permanente

Carla Wicks
Physician, Kaiser Permanente

Sharon Wicher
Retired Nurse, SF General Hospital

Mark Reisman
Dermatologist, Kaiser Permanente

José Caicedo
Medical Interpreter, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Leila Saddat
Chief Strategy Officer, West Oakland Health

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