San Francisco Identities

As an ex-member of the Black Panthers

I am an illegal immigrant from the Republic of Congo

I am a licensed fortune teller in the City and County of San Francisco

I am a survivor of the October 6, 1989 Castro Sweep

I am a historian, a 32-year survivor of AIDS, and a Vietnam War veteran

I am a victim of murder and a witness

I am a screaming queen, a legend, an icon, a diva, and a fantastic woman

I am a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and organizer of major events

I am a prophet sent from Jesus Christ

As a waterfront groupie

I am a former member of this council and a person living with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy

I am a tribal water organizer with State of California Salmon

I am a great-great-granddaughter of a slave

I am a formerly homeless transgender woman

I am a deaf, able-bodied individual who uses a bike in San Francisco

As a community volunteer and person with a quintuple diagnosis

I am a trans and autistic student from Sweden

I am a Tenderloin historian and director of walking tours

I am an architectural consultant with over 41 years of full-time experience

I am a person that came up positive for uranium and plutonium exposure

I am a mother who lost her child to homicide

I am a diasbled LGBTQ veteran with a 15-year record of active duty

I am a merchant from the Excelsior

I am a survivor of addiction that lasted over 20-plus years that included crime, violence, destruction to my family and community, homelessness, and most of all, state and county incarcerations

I am a proud immigrant trans woman of color living with HIV

As a transgender immigrant living with HIV

I am a San Francisco native and currently a formerly homeless recovering heroin addict

I am a member of the Erotic Service Providers Union

As a survivor of a pedestrian crash

I am a survivor of contact with police

I am a local electrician

As someone who misses Devan

I am a property owner and former Ag Commissioner

I am a product of being homeless for 15 years

I am an immigrant from Brazil and have been undocumented for almost 20 years

I am an observer of the urban fabric of Market Street

As a former homeless person

I am a researcher for colon and breast cancer

I am a musician in the San Francisco Symphony

As a parent who lost a child to a drive-by shooting

As a BART director

As an openly gay man and a drag queen

As a long-time investigator of police misconduct

As an equal with the Chief of Police

As a trauma and acute care surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital

As a rabbi and transgender person

As a former redevelopment agency commissioner

As a food guardian

I am a byproduct of being able to pull myself out of a really deep hole

As an anti-Zionist Jew with family killed in the Holocaust

I am an anomaly

I am a founding member of the Rainbow Party

I am an intersex person with XX chromosomes, female reproductive organs, and abnormal genitalia

I am a Cantonese translator

As a community member who has done time

I am a San Francisco resident who grew up at the zoo

As a Black and Indigenous queer disabled youth born and raised in the Castro

As a member of the Bed Bug Working Group

I am a non-binary, trans, queer, white person and a fourth-generation San Franciscan born and raised in the Bay Area

I am a mechanical engineer and a licensed architect in the state of California

I am a molecular biologist and a business owner

I am an architect and the design lead for the Cargo 66 building out at SFO

As a zero-emission task force participant

I am a recovering slave

I am a clinical social worker working with adolescents and with abusive and neglectful parents

As a disabled client and a resident in the shelter system

As an architectural historian

As a sixth generation Black San Franciscan born and raised in Bayview Point

As a queer LGBTQ transgender Latino youth

As a person who is in charge of cultural affairs for San Francisco

As a youth who works with youth and just lost a youth of my community

I am a union bargaining chip

I am a gun violence survivor

I am a pest control advisor, a licensed structural pest control operator, and a qualified applicator

I am a mother and former mortician

I am a Chinatown artist

As a former fire commissioner

I am an African-American who migrated from the Ivory Coast in my early twenties to San Francisco

As a BIPOC, LGBTQ person with disabilities

As a longtime Mission resident and the mother of a Black son who was a victim of police brutality in 2015

As a juvenile who was in the juvenile hall system

As a part-time staff member who is barely above the food stamp threshold and paying college loans

As an organizer for the San Francisco coalition protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline

As a geotech expert

I am a supporter of nudity

As a former inmate who served time in county jail and state prison

I am a San Francisco resident in District 8 and the son of Palestinian refugees

As a native born and raised in the Tenderloin where my family still lives

As a San Francisco resident, citizen of the United States, and environmental scientist with a Master's in global systems

I am a medallion purchaser

I am a former undocumented immigrant from Honduras who had to leave my homeland for a better life here in the US

I am an artist at the shipyard

I am a cultivator in the 10th district, and a temporary micro-business owner

I am a community organizer in the Tenderloin and South of Market

I am a behavioral health commissioner for public health

I am a combat Vietnam veteran, Purple Heart recipient, and 100% disabled

I am a whistleblower

I am a reentry member at the Transgender Intersects Justice Project

I am a musician in a past life

As a former hate crimes prosecutor in the San Francisco DA's office

As an individual who works with SRO tenants in the Tenderloin

I am a Christian Scientist

As a leader of the disability rights movement

As an enforcement attorney for the Department of Insurance

I am a government employee and UN representative

As a former San Francisco Planning Commissioner

I am a collision survivor and a senior member of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Families for Safe Streets

As a PTA President of 12 terms

I am a muralist in the area

I am a trailblazer, a 29-year supervisor with AIDS, and a Vietnam veteran

As a social worker, martial arts instructor, life coach, and IT computer trainer

I am a transit activist

As a person who wanted to provide care for queer and transgender folks

As a medallion holder with health issues

I am a representative on the HIV panel and oncology unit

I am a long-time community leader in housing, education, and promoting health and wellness in San Francisco and nationally in 37 states and Puerto Rico

As an artist and a recent recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Individual Artist Grant

As a formerly incarcerated and formerly homeless person

As a 40-year resident of San Francisco, an owner of a city landmark, and one who has been actively helping to preserve our city's historic resources

As a Mexican-American woman serving District 9 on the Board of Supervisors

As a disabled man who pulled himself out of the gutter of over 25 years of chronic homelessness

As a former gang member

As a pipsqueak activist

I am a tree risk assessor

I am a member of the Treatment on Demand Coalition, a person born and raised here, and a child of addicts

I am a third generation coffee brewster

As an author of San Francisco's Health Care Security Ordinance

As a former write-in mayoral candidate

As a former adventure operator

As a migrant, undocumented community leader who works with a network of nearly 200 community members

As a Postmaster of San Francisco

As a formerly homeless disabled individual

As a fire protection engineer

As a longtime resident of San Francisco and an integral member of our nation's war on terrorism

I am a gay historian of sorts

I am an Arab American community leader and a human rights activist originally from Yemen

I am a single mom of a 15-year-old intersex child

As someone who represents appellants and DR requestors

As a professional with a master's degree in preservation planning

I am a commercial and recreational salmon fisherman

I am a parent to three children and a specialist with Chinese affirmative action

As a California Indian and First Nations person

I am a river person and fierce advocate for Tuolumne River and Alameda Creek

As a radio show host, legal analyst, professor, and dean

As a pretrial services professional

As a former commissioner for both building inspection and the planning department

As a great consigliere, educator, and partner

I am a rogue member of this Board of Supervisors

I am a Green Party activist who works closely with Single Payer Now

As a ratepayer and former President of the Fisherman's Wharf Merchant Association

As an entertainment commissioner

As a crisis care responder

I am a woman of many hats

I am an attorney and an immigrant rights commissioner in the City and County of San Francisco

As a recipient of a very large settlement from the City of San Francisco

As a Jewish American and Japanese resident

As a former transitional youth

As a Palestinian with many family members in Gaza

As a forensic psychiatrist and research psychiatrist

I am a doula community birth worker in San Francisco

As a person who came undocumented from Guatemala in 1982 and is now a citizen of this country

As an attorney in San Francisco at a time when there were few Black attorneys

As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism

I am a fourth-generation San Franciscan

As a fourth generation Franciscan helping to raise my fifth generation daughter

I am a deaf-blind senior citizen who worked in San Francisco for 25 years

As a formerly homeless person

As a former director of police community relations

I am a resident and a mother of a murder victim

As a queer person who got married in San Francisco City Hall

I am a member of the Chinese President Association

I am an expert in stereotypes

I am an infection epidemiologist and a resident of San Francisco

As a mother of multiracial children raised by civil rights activists

I am a great-great-granddaughter of Bridget Biddy Mason

As a nurse who was affected by tuberculosis

I am a policy advocate with the public defender's office and a member of the livestock coalition

I am a home girl from the Mission

I am a rent-controlled renter in the Sunset District living in one of those out-of-character ten-story old buildings

As a San Francisco native who lived through the trauma of displacement

I am an epidemiologist

I am a long-term AIDS survivor

I am a fifth-generation San Franciscan

I am a practitioner for Urban Alchemy

As a three-decade veteran of the Tenderloin who just happens to still be awake

I am a member of the Syrian Committee of Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association and a board member of the West Portal Merchant Association

I am a mother and survivor of traffic violence on Fulton Street

As a transgender person of color and leader in the LGBTQ community

I am a retirement plan actuary working in San Francisco

I am a collaborative facilitator working to end violence in our communities and jails

I am a principal transportation planner and project manager for the 4th Street Bridge transit lanes

As a chemical sensitive person

I am a partner of the Mission Cannabis Club

As an anti-oppressive psychotherapist and social worker

I am a cannabis professional, educator, and consultant in the industry

As a delivery service operator and a person that is on the nonconforming list

I am a member of the San Francisco Police Department for 33 years

I am an ex-convict who, if they knew of my past in Los Angeles, they'd probably stop me from driving a cab

I am an animal advocate involved in trap-neuter-release of feral cats

I am a mom of four, a USAF member, and a 17-year veteran special education paraprofessional

I am a foster parent of 30 years who deals with children with autism and mental disabilities, and a community activist of 42 years

I am a victim of a real estate fraud

As a longtime planner and historic preservation commissioner

As a gay supervisor who also represents the LGBTQ+ district

As a business owner, member of the San Francisco African-American Chamber, and the Black and Jewish Unity Coalition

As a mother whose child was killed at 18

As a former homeless person in District 6

I am a formerly homeless individual

I am a longtime waterfront watcher

As a wildlife rehab director

As a current employee of the school district with an extensive history of supporting young people in the justice system

As a director of lyric-based initiatives

I am a Korean War veteran

As a person who spent 11 years as a public defender defending people of color and queer people

As a Salvadoran who suffered during the civil war in El Salvador

I am a commercial fisherman

As a founding member of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers

As a former director of the African-American Art and Cultural Complex

As a deportation defense attorney

As a senior who got whacked by a scooter

I am a blind woman

I am a pedicab operator

As a person that has an unblinking eye on discriminatory practices

As a healer

As a San Francisco native attending high school in the Mission and working at Zuckerberg General Hospital

As a master of the Japanese garden

As a queer and trans professor of sociology at City College of San Francisco

As a sociologist who studied the Castro community for many years and a scholar of studies, place, and culture

As a war refugee from Vietnam

As a closeted queer

As a certified rape crisis counselor

I am a DACA recipient

As a small business commissioner

I am a miracle worker and advocate in the city

I am a cannabis retailer in San Francisco

I am a sixth generation Chinese-American

As a baby boomer with traumatic brain injuries

As a consultant to the Pentagon and the Defense Department

I am a granddaughter to someone who worked for the Governor of Tokyo at the most difficult time in the city of Japan

As a Director of Environmental Justice Advocacy

I am a medical herbalist

I am a sixth generation San Franciscan who lives in District 3 and works in healthcare

As a former executive director for organizations that received millions of dollars from the City and County of San Francisco

As an active behavioural health commissioner and an individual with lived experience

I am a musician who moved from a tent to an RV

As a member of the redistricting task force

I am a gallery director in California and South Carolina

I am a prisoner of the administrative code

As an art space facilitator and resident

As a powerful voice for cultural change and inclusiveness

As an individual artist representative participating in the hotel tax allocation coalition

As a gay man with HIV

As an HIV positive activist in the community

As an occasionally homeless person in San Francisco

I am a wind project developer of 35 years

As a volunteer and crisis hotline attendant

I am a District 9 Mission resident, executive board member, and member of the Harvey Milk Club

I am a queer Jewish Palestinian

I am a registered geologist

I am a foreclosed homeowner

As a language rights advocate

I am a manager for the Death Council and Advocate Agency

As a social epidemiologist

I am a former federal prisoner

I am a journeyman sheet metal worker and proud member of the Sheet Workers Union Local 104

I am a tobacco control researcher from Stanford University

I am an alternative fuel advocate

I am a veteran of the plastic bag wars in Sacramento

As a planner of some 40 years and many more than 40 urban waterfront projects

I am a resident of Yerba Buena Island

As an operator of an airport

As a Harvard-trained historian

I am a product of 1966 when America had the first Black and white kids to go to Head Start

I am a native of San Francisco and an inner city missionary

As a woman of Black trans experience

I am a 67-year-old disabled gay senior who has lived in San Francisco for close to 30 years

As a Latina Jew

I am a fifth-generation San Franciscan born and raised in the Sunset

As a mother who has been on a battlefield for the last 9 years

As a mobile food consultant

I am a former special assistant to the President

I am a relative of Native Americans, Indian Indians, and African descent

I am a director with a national organization that challenges the idea of imprisonment, surveillance, and control

I am a long-term resident of the Tenderloin and manager of the Tenderloin Benefit District safety program

I am a location scout and location manager

As a woman of Middle Eastern background and educator

As a large vessel operator

I am a former rent board commissioner of 17 years

As a mother of three boys and fire chief

I am a resident of Telegraph Hill and a documentary filmmaker

I am an activist for the medical marijuana community

I am a policy group student at Berkeley who has been interested in working with a number of cannabis startups

As a medical epidemiologist

As a transgender immigrant

As a former juvenile probation commissioner

As a person who has worked a lot of under-the-table jobs

I am a conservative, Republican, pro-life, moderate social worker

I am a physician involved in teaching about the impacts of climate change and fossil fuel pollution on human health

As a member of the LGBTQ Cultural District on the governance committee

As a DeSoto driver of many years and a medallion holder

I am a product of addictive families, community, and environment

I am a social worker by training and a politician by accident

I am a Japanese Peruvian

As a relocated Native woman

As a Black Native woman in San Francisco who grew up in Bayview-Hunters Point

As an openly gay man who has been living with HIV for 20 years

I am a cadet of the Vision Zero Hero movement

As a tenants' rights organizer

As a gay immigrant who immigrated from Malaysia

I am a mathematician, statistician, and attorney

As an undocumented resident from Guatemala at age 14

I am a friend of Dorothy

As a holy leader and holy representative

As a survivor of sexual abuse in childhood

I am an Assistant General Counsel at the State Bar of California

As a permit expediter

I am a medical cannabis activist and a member of Access and Gloss San Francisco

As a guy who is responsible for making Muni run faster

As a Tenderloin parent whose kids are friends with people experiencing homelessness

As an author of the legislation that requires tour bus drivers to be accompanied by a tour guide

As a transgender woman of color at 80

I am an election lawyer

As an Olympic athlete growing up in East Saint Louis

As a Black Muslim woman

I am a psychiatrist and a landscape designer

As a verified equity applicant

As a brother who lost two brothers to gun violence

As a neighbor who feeds the people in the alleys and a pizza lady

I am a juvenile justice attorney, policy advocate, and survivor of the juvenile justice system

As an international policy student, lawyer, and Fulbright scholar

As a child of 13 living in a van

I am a practicing and active Christian Scientist

As a historic preservation officer

I am a recreation director that got a pink slip

I am a land use attorney

I am a university-trained cultural anthropologist

As a drug user for most of my life

I am a 911 dispatcher

I am a bishop at the Church Antigua

As a proud member of the Alliance of Black School Educators

As a member of the City Hall Preservation Advisory Commission

I am a child of two generations of refugees, Palestinian and Syrian immigrants

I am a native plant nursery manager

As a medallion buyer

I am an expert accepted by the Secretary of the Interior for the evaluation of historic buildings

I am a native San Franciscan and a 911 dispatcher

As a pioneer of Mexican society

I am an HIV advocacy and educational consultant

As a member of the California Coastal Commission

As a formerly incarcerated youth

I am a member of the Marijuana Oversight Finance Committee

I am a volunteer golf historian for the city

I am a green roof professional

As a member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

I am a delegate of Telegraph Hill Dwellers to the Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods

I am a neuroscientist and software engineer

I am an operator of the San Francisco Eagle bar

I am a Chinatown community planner

As a proud President of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club

As a low-income transgender gay man

I am a member of the San Francisco Public Defender for Racial Justice Committee

I am a former naval nuclear propulsion plant mechanical operator

I am a pier navigator

I am a resident from D3 who lives in an SRO

I am a member of the coalition for naming Chinatown subway station as Chinatown subway station only

I am a 65-year-old transsexual woman

I am a member of the San Francisco Fire Commission

I am a cannabis educator and an activist

As a former undocumented Korean and economic refugee from a post-war country

I am an African-American male in the field of elementary school principals

As a judge in behavioral health court

As a National Youth of the Year

I am a Palestinian, a Christian, and a Semite

I am a cofounder of Queer Nation San Francisco

I am a World War II veteran

I am a 17-year zoo board member

As a past prosecutor who investigated and prosecuted peace officers including sheriff's deputies

I am a former co-chair of the San Francisco Socialist Committee

I am a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

As a civil-rights attorney who spent three years litigating fair housing claims against real-estate speculators

I am a professional bicyclist who pulls a trailer

As an emergency response social worker and interim social worker supervisor

I am a native from San Francisco who spent teen years between hospitals and locked psychiatric facilities

I am a retired Army flag officer and member of three major yacht clubs

As a champion for women in policing

As a descendant of slaves, slavers, and misplaced indigenous people

I am a homeless advocate who is still living on the street

I am a freelancer, writer, and lawyer

As a former financial professional and a current tenant organizer

I am a child advocate on a pedestrian safety advisory board

As a DNA expert, prosecutor for 22 years, and the leader of an elite trial unit

I am a seventh generation San Franciscan born and raised in Bayview-Hunters Point

I am a Tenderloin activist

As a fourth-generation San Franciscan and someone who has been stopped, detained, and arrested numerous times for pretextual stops

I am a huge fan of electronic dance music events as a form of my spirituality

As a fourth generation person living in Japantown

As a second-generation San Franciscan and last family member able to live in this city

I am a 69-year-old rider who rides five days a week

As an architectural historian

As a director of the first ever Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies

As a young man who served 25 consecutive years in prison

As an immigrant family that started with zero in the 1980s

I am a gender nonconforming person

As an organizer, social worker, big sister, city employee, and colonization survivor

As a single parent raising seven children

I am a native San Franciscan involved in cannabis since 2005

As a cancer survivor of stage 3 colon cancer

I am a refugee from Ukraine

As a trial attorney, counselor, and police commissioner

I am a Chief of Victim Services for the District Attorney's Office

As a queer Latino nightlife industry worker who understands the value of my fellow workers

As a parks control officer

I am an active resident on Treasure Island

I am a member of the BART Board of Directors

I am a baby resident

As a teenager and one of the Bay Area's youngest and only Chicana union president

I am a promoter with the economic agency and the coalition for non-citizen voting parents' education

As a former co-chair for high speed rail

As an arts-based coordinator

As a representative of the First People

I am a survivor of a bicycle collision and someone who spends 10 hours a week walking the streets of the Tenderloin

I am a proud parent of a Lowell student and a refugee from the Soviet Union who faced real discrimination

As a climate campaign director for the Center for Biological Diversity

As a person who was at the forefront of San Francisco's gay rights movement

I am a teacher at the public school in juvenile hall

As a trans person with Swiss-German ancestry

As a bicycle program manager

I am a gang member

I am a three-time drug rehab graduate

As an educator with experience working with men and women in jails

As a staunch advocate of bilingual education

I am a ground zero soldier

I am a holder of 36 orders of determination for violation of the Sunshine Ordinance

I am a retired violinist after 35 years performing with the San Francisco Opera

I am a Segway tour guide

As a former California Schoolmaster Award winner

As a former prosecutor and someone who worked on this case

As a member of the community during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic

I am an anomaly

I am a nonnative species

As a proud zealot

I am a third generation alumnus of Malcolm X Academy Elementary School

I am a member of the San Francisco Alliance of Black School Educators

I am an occupier of Ohlone territory

As a person raised in a family of antitrust attorneys

As a previous psychiatric emergency room nurse

I am an Asian-American who tracks crime in court cases in San Francisco

I am a queer in District 9

I am a former anti-gentrification activist

As an undercover agent

I am a trans woman and an undergraduate doing work in trans academia

I am a horticulturalist in San Francisco

I am a well-known artist represented by a New York gallery

I am a member of Occupy San Francisco

I am a retired Lutheran pastor

I am a conservation chairperson for the San Francisco Bay and West Women Fly Fishers

As a civic technologist

As a chief investigator for this city

I am a child of two generations of refugees of Palestinian and Syrian immigrants

I am a bipolar person living with HIV

As an ombudsman specializing in long-term care

As a director of environmental justice advocacy

As a former ethics commissioner

I am a social justice, feminist, and trans studies major at City College

I am a 73-year-old senior

As an electrical engineer with experience in national lab work and as a physicist

I am a third generation Japanese-American who was born in an American concentration camp

As a court reporter and carpenter

I am a proud Black queer member of the San Francisco Fire Department

I am a former ethics commissioner from long ago

I am an electric bike tour guide

I am a retired high school science teacher and an urban beekeeper

I am a patient having survived an aggressive skin cancer

I am a person with experience in incarceration

As an immigrant and peace officer of San Francisco

As a consultant to our DA office for post-conviction immigration relief

I am a local entertainer and a retired letter carrier

I am a native San Franciscan and a film commissioner

As a young brown person in recovery and a drag queen

I am a formerly incarcerated woman who went to jail in the early 90s

I am a Native American of Yosemite where San Francisco gets their water

I am a lieutenant currently assigned to the homicide detail for SFPD

I am a maternal child adolescent health advocate, labor and delivery nurse for San Francisco General Hospital

I am a survivor of San Francisco traffic violence

As an emissary envoy of the Physicians of Saint Luke

As a tenant commissioner from 1984 to 2019

I am a member of the Order of Malta

I am a freelance documentary filmmaker who lives on Telegraph Hill and works in North Beach

As a former student of Mills College who was also living in their vehicle

I am a rising junior at San Francisco University High School and the co-founder of Dream Ukraine

As a queer immigrant who lives in District 9 but hangs out a lot in District 8

I am an arts advocate and associate director of community events for Burning Man Project

As an Indigenous clinician practicing culturally sensitive practices to the community

As a unique uniting figure in the Chinese community worldwide

I am a fifth generation San Franciscan

I am a seventh-grade teacher in the district and a member of the tribe in Northern California

As a member of a line dance team

I am an enrolled member of the Chippewa Indians

I am a long-time resident of the SoMa Philippine Cultural Heritage District

I am a survivor of domestic violence and abuse along with my mother and sisters

I am a collector of subways from around the world