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Joshua Arce, a civil rights and environmental-protection attorney for 15 years, first ran for public office at the age of 17. After graduating from University of California Hastings College of the Law, Arce co-founded a civil rights law firm, and in 2005, launched Brightline Defense Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on environmental issues and job creation in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Arce was the president of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment for three years, and was the community liaison for Laborers Local 261. Arce joined the DCCC in January 2015 and served one term before losing re-election later that year.
To boost sustainability and transportation options, Arce said he wants to further expand Zero Waste and Bay Area Bike Share, and by working with GoSolarSF, CleanPowerSF and GreenFinanceSF.
He is an officer of the Mission Housing Development Corp. board, which is building 165 units of affordable housing in the district, and he provides pro bono legal support to low-income tenants and business owners in District 9.
His priorities are protecting tenants through affordable housing; expanding Navigation Centers for the homeless; fighting income inequality through living-wage protections, and supporting neighborhood businesses and career pathways. He also wants to focus on “Campaign Zero” police reforms sparked by the killings of unarmed black men, provide housing for LGBTQ seniors, protect Planned Parenthood clinics and initiate a policy on workplace domestic violence.
“San Francisco is at a crossroads. We are losing our residents as they struggle with rising housing costs, homelessness, difficulty making ends meet, and declining community safety.” Arce said in his candidate statement. “The status quo has failed us. Our neighborhoods deserve better.”
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Iswari España became a San Francisco resident at the age of 11 after his family migrated from Guatemala City. España grew up in the Mission and Potrero Hill neighborhoods and studied political science and Latino studies with a focus on community relations, policy and law at San Francisco State University. As a student in the mid 1990s, España campaigned for several supervisorial candidates and state ballots, and interned for Democratic U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos. He is a training officer with the San Francisco Human Services Agency.
Besides corporate sales, España has worked with the San Francisco State University Educational Opportunity Program student organization, adult re-entry programs and funding for youth programming. He has also been an advocate for youths and adults with disabilities.
España lists his priorities as reducing teen violence and crime, creating jobs, funding schools with support for teachers and afterschool programs, and protecting renters and small businesses from evictions.
As an artist, España supports community art and murals around his 24th Street home and the wider district.
“I have over 16 years’ experience in management and supervisory roles in nonprofit and governmental programs. I am a self-starter with a background in community relations, employment, housing and criminal justice,” España said in his official statement. “My drive and long term dream is to represent my neighbors where I live and where I am raising my family.”
He said he is “tired of seeing other districts in the city dictating the local economy and the way we live.”
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Hillary Ronen is the chief of staff for termed-out District 9 Supervisor David Campos, whose office she joined in 2010 as a legislative aide. During her six-plus years with Campos, Ronen said she has co-authored the Eviction Protection for Teachers Legislation, Free Muni for Youth and San Francisco’s first Equal Pay Ordinance. In keeping with her work under Campos, Ronen has made affordability the crux of her campaign for supervisor, often citing her goal to build 5,000 units of affordable housing in District 9 in 10 years.
Before joining Campos’ office, Ronen was a civil rights attorney for over six years in the Mission District, where she led the worker’s rights unit for La Raza Centro Legal. Ronen is a fluent Spanish speaker and graduate of University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.
Her work has included legislation to protect women in healthcare clinics, protecting small businesses from unfair rent hikes and evictions through Legacy Business Registry, and addressing police response to property crime, including creating “a special Property Crime Unit that uses programs like bait cars, hot spot cameras, and crime reporting apps to solve property crimes and car break-ins.”
Ronen also emphasizes affordable housing; “common-sense solutions to ending street encampments and homelessness”; universal preschool; public safety; required de-escalation training for police officers, and oversight of the SFPD.
“I’ve lived or worked in District 9 for almost 15 years, and believe that safe, healthy, and affordable neighborhoods are worth fighting for,” she said in her candidate statement. “As a supervisor, I will be a fierce negotiator making sure District 9 gets its fair share from City Hall.”
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Melissa San Miguel, a Mission District native, is an education consultant and advocate. After graduating from UC Berkeley as valedictorian of the political science department, Miguel was awarded a fellowship at the California Department of Education. Miguel continued her work in education with California Forward and Education Trust-West before joining the National Center for Youth Law for two years as a policy manager. An active member of the Democratic Party, Miguel served as vice chair of the Chicano Latino Caucus of the California Democratic Party from 2013-2015, and serves as vice chair of the California Young Democrats Latino Caucus. In 2012, Miguel was an at-large delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and she was an elected delegate of Assembly District 17 from 2013-2015.
She lists her priorities as addressing education for underprivileged children; expanding art programs among the youth; building more affordable housing; and establishing neighborhood services through youth development programs and senior services. Miguel also focuses on women’s issues with affordable childcare and paid parental leave, housing and mental health services for the homeless, and public safety through an overhaul of the police department to better serve people of color.
“My advocacy work for children has been incredibly rewarding, and now it’s time to expand that fight for the neighborhood I grew up in,” Miguel said in her candidate statement. “It’s time for a leader from our community who will fight for the people, not politics.”
Ranked-choice voting
Under the city’s ranked-choice voting, if no candidate initially receives 50 percent plus one, the top three candidates according to voters’ preferences face instant runoffs to determine the winner.
Our methodology
The Public Press chose to count endorsements from organizations that backed multiple candidates or ballot measures, and that made those endorsements available online. We did not count endorsements from individuals.
Some organizations endorsed a first and second choice for candidates in some races. Those preferences are not represented here.
If you think we missed an important organization, please tell us. We’d love to hear from you.
Tracked Endorsements by Organization
Published: Oct. 14, 2016
