My occupation is Affordable Housing Director / Parent.
My qualifications are:
I have a daughter attending our school district and our kids’ education means everything.
Education shaped my family’s history. My grandfather started the first women’s college in his region in India. My father navigated the British colonial system to attend a prestigious engineering school in India, which enabled him to come to America. My parents arrived with only $200 but put my education first and raised me in excellent public schools. I graduated with a Masters from Harvard University.
My whole career I’ve fought to uplift families:
• As a leader at Mercy Housing, the largest US affordable housing nonprofit, I fight to improve thousands of children’s lives to provide fresh starts.
• As School Site Council Chair and a member of the District Algebra Workgroup, I fought to improve all student outcomes including smaller classes, STEM curriculum, and additional tutoring for struggling students.
SFUSD has major challenges: a $421M budget deficit, school closures, and a state takeover.
I am a consensus candidate supported by:
• Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi
• State Treasurer Fiona Ma
• Senator Scott Wiener
• Assemblymember Matt Haney
• United Educators of San Francisco
• SF Parent Action
• Mayor London Breed
• Former-Mayor Mark Farrell
• Supervisors Matt Dorsey, Joel Engardio, Rafael Mandelman, Myrna Melgar, Connie Chan
• Board of Education Commissioner Jenny Lam
• Former-Democratic Party Chair Honey Mahogany
• TogetherSF
• GrowSF
• Asian-Americans Rise
• Former-SFUSD Superintendent Vincent Matthews
Parag Gupta
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