San Francisco Identities

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

As a woman who drives a train

I am a political refugee from Gaza City, Palestine

I am a sponge

I am an owner and operator of small quick-service Vietnamese restaurant

I am an involuntary psychiatric outpatient in San Francisco

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

As a community volunteer and person with a quintuple diagnosis

I am an illegal immigrant from the Republic of Congo

I am a trapeze artist

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

I am a 53-year-old woman who has never driven a car

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

I am a 73-year-old senior

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

I am a Palestinian-American community organizer, medical engineer and entrepreneur

I am a sociologist with a degree in essentialology

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

As a lover of California's role of modernism in the country

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

I am a Segway tour guide

I am a specialist in conflict theory and how it interrelates with earth science

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

As a former gang member

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

As a homeless convicted felon

As someone who misses Devan

I am a member of the Chinese President Association

As a young man who served 25 consecutive years in prison

I am a former naval nuclear propulsion plant mechanical operator

I am an electrically sensitive person

As a former homeless gay teenager kicked out of home at 15 for being gay

I am a bipolar person living with HIV

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

I am a 28-year-old veteran and one of the first eleven black officers

I am a whistleblower

As an undocumented resident from Guatemala at age 14

As a self-proclaimed Tenderloin queen

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

I am a descendant of Colonel Allen Allensworth who was born a slave

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

I am a commercial and recreational salmon fisherman

As a parks control officer

As a member of the City Hall Preservation Advisory Commission

I am a former inmate of the San Francisco jail and former client of adult probation

I am a representative on the HIV panel and oncology unit

I am a psychiatrist and a landscape designer

I am a mathematician, statistician, and attorney

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

As a former director of police community relations

I am a Sunset resident and Tenderloin activist

I am a potter and glass artist

I am a university-trained cultural anthropologist

I am a proud Pacific Islander female who works as an employment trainee manager

As a director of lyric-based initiatives

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

As an openly gay man and a drag queen

I am a smart guy, business owner, and person in charge of people's bodies

As a member of the California Coastal Commission

As a Palestinian with many family members in Gaza

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

As a whistleblower

I am a mother who lost her child to homicide

I am a coastal engineer

As a disabled transgender woman

As a mother whose child was murdered in the Western Addition, which remains unsolved

I am a ground zero soldier

I am a muralist in the area

As a child of a Holocaust survivor

As a gay supervisor who also represents the LGBTQ+ district

As a nurse who was affected by tuberculosis

I am a great-great-granddaughter of a slave

As a young man traveling by train with my sister in Northern Ireland

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

As a former redevelopment agency commissioner

As a former public housing resident and former family resource center director

As a permit expediter

I am a rape survivor

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

I am a heavily medicated person

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

I am an anomaly

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

I am a member of the Graffiti Advisory Board

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

I am a Japanese Peruvian

As a creator of open space parks

As a former co-chair for high speed rail

As a resident, an outsider, and a concert professional

As a writer and performer of 11 solo plays

I am a former federal prisoner

I am a victim of gang stalking

I am a 30-year resident of Bayview and the security provider for both Candlestick and Shipyard

As a blind person with a guide dog who is also hard of hearing

As a cyclist, a member of the underground task force, and a leader in San Francisco

As a gay man who lives in the Deep South and an HIV advocate

As a social epidemiologist

I am a co-founder of United Taxi Cab Workers and a former law practitioner

As a child of Chinese refugees born in San Francisco

As a grandfather, former President of the San Francisco Board, and a policy maker who has made the well-being of children and families a priority for over 40 years

As an art lawyer

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

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

As a Chief Resilience Officer

I am a musician in a past life

I am a long-time resident of San Francisco, a mother of a seven-year-old, and a city and regional planner

As a child of 13 living in a van

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

As a holy leader and holy representative

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

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

I am a younger dragon

As a court reporter and carpenter

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

I am a proud founding member of the San Francisco African-American Arts and Culture District

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

I am a little bit of a vampire

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

I am a former police commissioner

As an undercover agent

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

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

As a person that has an unblinking eye on discriminatory practices

As a student constantly glancing over my shoulder and wondering if my phone has been tapped

As a Chinatown activist

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

I am a gay historian of sorts

As a member of the National Guard who served off the coast of San Francisco

As a tenant organizer in the Tenderloin

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

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

As an anti-oppressive psychotherapist and social worker

I am a product of witnessing abuse in my household

I am a community police accountability activist who lives in the Castro

I am a trans and autistic student from Sweden

I am a descendant of genocide survivors, enslaved Africans, and my father

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

I am an occupier of Ohlone territory

As a disabled woman veteran and the first African American commander of the American Legion

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

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

I am a target of ongoing torture in San Francisco

As a certified fraud examiner

As a resident of San Francisco, a representative of the administration, and a Native woman

As a medallion holder with health issues

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

I am a film representative from Dianne Feinstein's office

As an elected official who lives in a rent control unit

As a bicycle program manager

I am a native Chinese speaker whose second language is Spanish

I am a gun violence survivor

I am a retirement plan actuary working in San Francisco

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

As a volunteer and crisis hotline attendant

As a former New York City child welfare employee

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

I am a patriot for marijuana and the rainbow

I am a resident and a mother of a murder victim

As an emergency planning operation lead

I am a former prison inmate, former drug addict, and former homeless person

As a professor of design and art therapy

I am a recreation director that got a pink slip

I am an organic mushroom farmer

As a gay immigrant who immigrated from Malaysia

I am an orientation and mobility specialist for the blind

As a representative of the First People

I am a dog walker, not a sex offender

As an ambassador

I am a person who goes to records that are really ancient with the planning department

I am a victim of gang violence on the street

I am a folk artist

I am a cannabis educator and an activist

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

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

As a person with AIDS

I am a member of the BART Board of Directors

I am a medallion purchaser

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

As a transgender person who has been unhoused very recently

I am a fire safety fundamentalist

I am a miracle worker and advocate in the city

As a staunch advocate of bilingual education

As an international policy student, lawyer, and Fulbright scholar

As a third generation impacted Bayview-Hunters Point resident and front line mobilizer and organizer

I am a gender nonconforming person

I am a San Francisco resident living with a constellation of health issues that includes hoarding behaviors

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

As a federal policeman and a city policeman

I am a fire commissioner in San Francisco

I am a 911 dispatcher

As a PTA President of 12 terms

As a waterfront groupie

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

As a birth holder

I am a member of the Tenderloin Pedestrian Safety Task Force

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

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

As a brother who lost two brothers to gun violence

I am a longtime permit consultant, entertainment and nightlife advocate

I am a former ethics commissioner from long ago

I am a prisoner of the administrative code

I am an infection epidemiologist and a resident of San Francisco

As a discrimination and trial attorney who has defended against hate

As a Vietnamese refugee who came to the United States in 1980

As a parent of a person currently in custody in San Francisco County Jail

I am a refugee from the Soviet Union

I am a legend and an icon

As a food guardian

As a fellow CEQA nerd

I am a professional bicyclist who pulls a trailer

I am a Vietnam combat veteran

As a member of a community that faces genocide

I am an organizer for a nonprofit housing in the Tenderloin and I live in nonprofit housing

As an emissary envoy of the Physicians of Saint Luke

As a front line nurse in the psychiatric emergency room at San Francisco General

As a chemical sensitive person

I am a filmmaker engaged by the Jazz Ambassadors

I am a senior who discovered a deceased senior citizen last month

I am a member of the San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee and a bicycle safety educator

As a man who has worked in the industry for 17 years

I am an epidemiologist

As an attending physician in emergency services and a consultant

As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism

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

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

I am a fox

As a vehicle dweller

As an HIV positive gay man

I am a bishop at the Church Antigua

As a survivor of a pedestrian crash

As a relocated Native woman

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

As a landlord and a kid

I am a member of the Erotic Service Providers Union

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

As a 50-year-old adult child of a parent with hoarding disorder

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

I am a former prosecutor and public safety adviser to Kamala Harris

As an immigrant fully bilingual in Cantonese and Mandarin

I am a former president of Telegraph Hill Dwellers and the producer-director of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

I am an immigrant, an arts and culture administrator, and a community artist

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

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

I am a product of the Fillmore and a product of gun violence

I am a fourth-generation San Franciscan

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

I am a human rights lawyer who works in Port-au-Prince representing victims of violence

As a woman of Black trans experience

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

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

As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism

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 a scarred trial attorney

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

I am a board member of the American Indian Cultural District and an elder in the community

I am a victim of murder and a witness

I am a compliance and enforcement analyst with the Office of Cannabis

I am a product of the juvenile justice center

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

As a former homeless person

As a supervisor for District 8 and the only supervisor representing the queer community

I am a First Amendment lawyer specializing in government matters

As a member of a line dance team

As a tenant commissioner from 1984 to 2019

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

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

As a former civil grand juror

As an owner and operator of multiple venues in the city

As a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault

I am a registered Democrat and the first Filipina elected to the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee

I am a salsa instructor

I am a resident homeowner in District 5, a retired UCSF research scientist, and a widow

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

I am a fourth-generation Japanese American working for a senior services nonprofit in Japantown

As a veteran San Francisco performing poet

As a former transitional youth

I am a survivor of contact with police

As a trans person with Swiss-German ancestry

I am a high school student formerly detained in juvenile hall

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

I am a teacher at the public school in juvenile hall

As an ex-member of the Black Panthers

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

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

I am a resident of San Francisco who lives in an RV motorhome

As a zero-emission task force participant

As a legacy merchant owner

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

I am an emeritus professor at Stanford

As a former California Schoolmaster Award winner

I am a practitioner for Urban Alchemy

I am a prisoner in my own home

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

As an investigative producer with decades of experience from Manhattan

As a science respecting holistic Black midwife who catches Black, Brown, and Indigenous babies

I am a nonnative species

As a member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

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

As a mother of a teen, and a former sex worker

As a baby boomer with traumatic brain injuries

I am an adjunct professor of election law at Golden Gate University

I am an eighth generation San Franciscan married to an immigrant

I am a United States disabled Navy veteran, Desert Storm veteran, and combat service medal recipient

As a great consigliere, educator, and partner

As a teenager who fostered a baby raccoon for a year

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

I am a victim of a real estate fraud

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

As a BIPOC, LGBTQ person with disabilities

I am an owner and operator of San Francisco Eagle Bar

As a Mission native and a queer Latina

As a Postmaster of San Francisco

I am a female truck driver with bipolar disorder

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

As an HIV positive activist in the community

As an LGBTQ+ veteran who served 10 years under Don't Ask, Don't Tell

I am a former 911 public service trainee

I am a full-time performing recording artist who has been blessed to live here in the Bay

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

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

As a tenants' rights organizer

I am an Afghan immigrant

I am a 7th generation San Franciscan

I am a land use attorney

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

As a civic technologist

As a Coastal Commission District Director

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

As a formerly homeless disabled individual

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

As an immigrant who is homeless

I am a union bargaining chip

I am a Commissioner for Veterans Affairs for the City and County of San Francisco and a retired United States Air Force member

As a young woman who participated in workforce development and became an apprentice cement mason

I am a 31-year-old queer event organizer in San Francisco

I am a frequent volunteer at the Tenderloin People's Garden

I am a home girl from the Mission

As an operator of an airport

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

I am a former special assistant to the President

As a reentry case manager and mental coordinator

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

As a member of the board of directors for an international NGO working to improve sexual and reproductive health for men and women

As a native that is actively working to help restore communities of color

I am a proud daughter of the Excelsior

As a lawyer who has represented individuals on the wrong end of police abuse

I am a young Black trans man

As a juvenile who was in the juvenile hall system

I am a cofounder of Queer Nation San Francisco

As a trans woman and long-time former resident of the Tenderloin and the Transgender District

As a sergeant assigned to Bay View Station and acting executive officer at Candlestick Park

I am a cannabis retailer in San Francisco

I am a survivor of San Francisco traffic violence

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

As a disabled client and a resident in the shelter system

I am a gang member

I am a 65-year-old transsexual woman

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

As an eco-socialist

I am a fifth-generation San Franciscan

I am a parent of someone who is incarcerated inside San Francisco County Jail and a grandmother

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

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

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

I am a golf course architect

I am a World War II veteran

As a 23-year Marine, resident, business owner, and preschool teacher

As a woman of indigenous heritage and the supervisor of a district that has been the beating heart of the African-American community

As a Black Muslim woman

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

I am an eighth generation San Franciscan

As an immigrant who came here 32 years ago undocumented

As an architect and equity-driven preservation artist

As a master gardener and urban farmer

I am an investigator of crimes against children covered by law enforcement

I am a feed reviewer and multimedia manager

As a flight instructor and fire chief who has survived an aircraft crash

As a consultant to the Pentagon and the Defense Department

I am a Treasure Island advisor

As a food stamp kid

As a Mexican indigenous transgender woman in the Tenderloin

I am an institutional police officer

As a Harvard-trained historian

As a BART director

I am an architectural mill worker and general contractor, the last of my sort

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

As a former member of the board for Caltrain

As a trial attorney, counselor, and police commissioner

I am a local electrician

As a mother of three boys and fire chief

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

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

As a future cannabis business owner

As an aggrieved delegate of the council

As a resident of Bayview-Hunters Point, the first African American to buy a home in Bayview-Hunters Point, and a homeowner

As a certified rape crisis counselor

I am an architectural historian

I am a researcher for colon and breast cancer

I am an operator of the San Francisco Eagle bar

I am a founding member of the Rainbow Party

I am a merchant from the Excelsior

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

I am a Cantonese translator

As a large vessel operator

As a formerly homeless person

I am a commercial fisherman

As a former homeless person

I am a woman of many hats

I am a Christian Scientist

As a crisis care responder

As a Director of Environmental Justice Advocacy

I am a third generation coffee brewster

As a proud member of the Alliance of Black School Educators

I am a plant ecologist

I am a 13-year resident of the Tenderloin who will be giving birth at CPMC next month

I am a molecular biologist and a business owner

As a historic preservation officer

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

I am a resident of Yerba Buena Island

I am a person who has copious substance use disorder and survived on the streets for over a decade

I am an attorney at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

I am an elderly person in San Francisco who has been affected by COVID-19 and is in the COVID relief program

As a Black woman raised by a Black mother with a father from El Salvador

As a judge in behavioral health court

As a charmer who suffers fools not lightly

As a disabled trans woman at the age of 37

As a prisoner

I am a native plant nursery manager

I am an owner of a tobacco store on Haight Street

I am a cannabis organizer for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 and a proud resident of San Francisco

I am a longtime waterfront watcher

I am a domestic violence advocate at Community United Against Violence

I am a family caseworker in SoMa and a resident of the Tenderloin

I am a medallion holder

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

As a former officer of the Federal Executive Board's Disabled Opportunity Council

As a former San Francisco foster youth

I am a long-time San Francisco resident currently fighting an eviction

As a fourth generation person living in Japantown

As a director of my own dance company

As a nationally recognized expert on transportation policy

I am a family care doctor in San Francisco who cares for many people experiencing homelessness

I am a member of Occupy San Francisco

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

I am a registered geologist

I am a 20-year citizen of San Francisco and a veteran of the First Gulf War

As the Commodore

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

As a director of environmental justice advocacy

I am a resident of District 8, co-chair of homeless emergency service providers, and policy director at Compass Services

As a Muni rider

I am a returning citizen who served 11 years in federal prison

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

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

I am an equity verified applicant in Bayview neighborhood

As a fourth-generation Filipino-American working as an artist and community activist

As a Latina Jew

As a former staffer to Vice President Al Gore and one of his domestic policy staff

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 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 long-time investigator of police misconduct

I am a food guardian

I am a Tenderloin historian and director of walking tours

I am a long-term cat rescuer

I am a child advocate on a pedestrian safety advisory board

As a person raised in a family of antitrust attorneys

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

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

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

As a pipsqueak activist

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

As a forensic psychiatrist and research psychiatrist

I am a trans and intersex San Francisco community member

I am a supporter of nudity

As a grandmother and cancer survivor still going through chemo

I am an observer of the urban fabric of Market Street

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

I am a D2 resident and an attorney at the public defender's office

I am a performer on the Port of San Francisco

I am a social equity operator on Mission Street

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

As a former homeless person

I am a formerly incarcerated person who spent 13 years in federal prison

I am a senior hazard assistance scientist for DTSC

As a member of this community, a former member of our county board of supervisors, and a former Clinton administration housing official

I am a member of the white people working against racism affinity group

I am a Palestinian, a Christian, and a Semite

I am a Korean War veteran

As a champion for women in policing

As a Black woman and law enforcement officer in animal control and adult probation

As a board member, international speaker, and lived experience advocate

As a past President of the Office of Justice

As an enforcement attorney for the Department of Insurance

As a fire protection engineer

I am an HIV advocacy and educational consultant

As a master of the Japanese garden

I am a longtime advocate working over 22 years with nonprofits and a re-entry services program manager

As a social equity owner of one cannabis club on Union Street

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

I am a historical architect

As a trauma surgeon at SF General