Barbara “Bobbi” Lopez

Bobbi Lopez is a dedicated advocate for social justice and community empowerment in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a career spanning various roles in public service, she has consistently worked to uplift vulnerable communities and address systemic issues. She worked at La Raza Centro Legal, advocating for children with disabilities and processing VAWA claims. She later became a tenant organizer with the Central City SRO Collaborative in San Francisco and then went on to found of La Voz Latina, a program to support Latino families living in the Tenderloin. La Voz was integral to advocating for a safe community, including safe parks, and for the creation of the Tenderloin Safe Passage program, working to ensure safer streets for children and families in the neighborhood. She also worked as a union representative for SEIU 1021, for public employees across the bay area, including workers who faced bullying and sexual harassment. Bobbi also briefly worked at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, enforcing the civil liberties of immigrants.

Bobbi Lopez has also served as a legislative aide and Director to three former elected officials and has successfully developed policies with community and city officials to fast-track affordable housing construction; strengthen and support citizen oversight of law enforcement; on restorative justice and Head Start programs; protect and sustain LGBT historic sites; expand public bathrooms; strengthen prevailing wage; and creating a public health response to behavioral or mental health non-emergency calls. In 2023 and 2024, she worked in a hybrid position in San Francisco Mayor’s Office and Department of Public Health to work on public safety issues in San Francisco including being a part of the Street Violence Response Team.