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Jennifer Esteen
Esteen is a registered nurse, working mother, and community activist, and has lived in the East Bay for nearly two decades. According to campaign materials, she is running for election to champion working families and to ensure that corporations and special interests pay their fair share so that communities have access to affordable housing, health care, and quality education. Esteen has not run for office previously. Esteen is an Emerge California Alumnus, having undergone leadership training to better represent the communities she wants to serve. She has local governing experience as a member of the Eden Municipal Area Council.
Her experience as a psychiatric nurse in the San Francisco General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Room, and seeing firsthand the cycle that patients experience from diminished funding for mental-health care, galvanized her to organize for better access to health care. While serving on a steering committee on mental health in San Francisco, she put together a plan to put a progressive tax on the CEO’s income to fund mental-health services, which passed with voter support. After working five years in the Behavioral Health Center, she fought alongside residents to stop the closure of 41 permanent board and care beds in the Adult Residential Facility. It was after saving those beds that she was appointed vice president of organizing for SEIU 1021.
As a state legislator, Esteen intends to address racial disparities and racial injustice through concrete measures, such as repealing the Ellis Act and Costa Hawkins. She also aims to champion policies that create stronger tenant protections, a living wage that covers more than just housing and food costs, and worker protections for low-wage and gig workers.
As secretary and treasurer of the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees, as well as a member of the Housing Conservatorship Working Group in San Francisco, Esteen also advocates for affordable housing and an equitable health-care system.
Esteen has the endorsement of many progressive leaders and groups, including Board of Equalization Member Malia Cohen, BART Director Lateefah Simon, #BlackLivesMatter Co-founder Alicia Garza, SEIU California, California Working Families Party, and Bay Rising Action.
Based on our analysis, Ortega’s and Esteen’s track records and policy positions demonstrate that both will be a progressive champions for the constituents of AD-20 and will govern effectively in the best interest of this diverse district.
Jennifer Esteen
Esteen is a registered nurse, working mother, and community activist, and has lived in the East Bay for nearly two decades. According to campaign materials, she is running for election to champion working families and to ensure that corporations and special interests pay their fair share so that communities have access to affordable housing, health care, and quality education. Esteen has not run for office previously. Esteen is an Emerge California Alumnus, having undergone leadership training to better represent the communities she wants to serve. She has local governing experience as a member of the Eden Municipal Area Council.
Her experience as a psychiatric nurse in the San Francisco General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Room, and seeing firsthand the cycle that patients experience from diminished funding for mental-health care, galvanized her to organize for better access to health care. While serving on a steering committee on mental health in San Francisco, she put together a plan to put a progressive tax on the CEO’s income to fund mental-health services, which passed with voter support. After working five years in the Behavioral Health Center, she fought alongside residents to stop the closure of 41 permanent board and care beds in the Adult Residential Facility. It was after saving those beds that she was appointed vice president of organizing for SEIU 1021.
As a state legislator, Esteen intends to address racial disparities and racial injustice through concrete measures, such as repealing the Ellis Act and Costa Hawkins. She also aims to champion policies that create stronger tenant protections, a living wage that covers more than just housing and food costs, and worker protections for low-wage and gig workers.
As secretary and treasurer of the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees, as well as a member of the Housing Conservatorship Working Group in San Francisco, Esteen also advocates for affordable housing and an equitable health-care system.
Esteen has the endorsement of many progressive leaders and groups, including Board of Equalization Member Malia Cohen, BART Director Lateefah Simon, #BlackLivesMatter Co-founder Alicia Garza, SEIU California, California Working Families Party, and Bay Rising Action.
Based on our analysis, Ortega’s and Esteen’s track records and policy positions demonstrate that both will be a progressive champions for the constituents of AD-20 and will govern effectively in the best interest of this diverse district.
Jennifer Esteen
Esteen is a registered nurse, working mother, and community activist, and has lived in the East Bay for nearly two decades. According to campaign materials, she is running for election to champion working families and to ensure that corporations and special interests pay their fair share so that communities have access to affordable housing, health care, and quality education. Esteen has not run for office previously. Esteen is an Emerge California Alumnus, having undergone leadership training to better represent the communities she wants to serve. She has local governing experience as a member of the Eden Municipal Area Council.
Her experience as a psychiatric nurse in the San Francisco General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Room, and seeing firsthand the cycle that patients experience from diminished funding for mental-health care, galvanized her to organize for better access to health care. While serving on a steering committee on mental health in San Francisco, she put together a plan to put a progressive tax on the CEO’s income to fund mental-health services, which passed with voter support. After working five years in the Behavioral Health Center, she fought alongside residents to stop the closure of 41 permanent board and care beds in the Adult Residential Facility. It was after saving those beds that she was appointed vice president of organizing for SEIU 1021.
As a state legislator, Esteen intends to address racial disparities and racial injustice through concrete measures, such as repealing the Ellis Act and Costa Hawkins. She also aims to champion policies that create stronger tenant protections, a living wage that covers more than just housing and food costs, and worker protections for low-wage and gig workers.
As secretary and treasurer of the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees, as well as a member of the Housing Conservatorship Working Group in San Francisco, Esteen also advocates for affordable housing and an equitable health-care system.
Esteen has the endorsement of many progressive leaders and groups, including Board of Equalization Member Malia Cohen, BART Director Lateefah Simon, #BlackLivesMatter Co-founder Alicia Garza, SEIU California, California Working Families Party, and Bay Rising Action.
Based on our analysis, Ortega’s and Esteen’s track records and policy positions demonstrate that both will be a progressive champions for the constituents of AD-20 and will govern effectively in the best interest of this diverse district.
Jennifer Esteen
Esteen is a registered nurse, working mother, and community activist, and has lived in the East Bay for nearly two decades. According to campaign materials, she is running for election to champion working families and to ensure that corporations and special interests pay their fair share so that communities have access to affordable housing, health care, and quality education. Esteen has not run for office previously. Esteen is an Emerge California Alumnus, having undergone leadership training to better represent the communities she wants to serve. She has local governing experience as a member of the Eden Municipal Area Council.
Her experience as a psychiatric nurse in the San Francisco General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Room, and seeing firsthand the cycle that patients experience from diminished funding for mental-health care, galvanized her to organize for better access to health care. While serving on a steering committee on mental health in San Francisco, she put together a plan to put a progressive tax on the CEO’s income to fund mental-health services, which passed with voter support. After working five years in the Behavioral Health Center, she fought alongside residents to stop the closure of 41 permanent board and care beds in the Adult Residential Facility. It was after saving those beds that she was appointed vice president of organizing for SEIU 1021.
As a state legislator, Esteen intends to address racial disparities and racial injustice through concrete measures, such as repealing the Ellis Act and Costa Hawkins. She also aims to champion policies that create stronger tenant protections, a living wage that covers more than just housing and food costs, and worker protections for low-wage and gig workers.
As secretary and treasurer of the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees, as well as a member of the Housing Conservatorship Working Group in San Francisco, Esteen also advocates for affordable housing and an equitable health-care system.
Esteen has the endorsement of many progressive leaders and groups, including Board of Equalization Member Malia Cohen, BART Director Lateefah Simon, #BlackLivesMatter Co-founder Alicia Garza, SEIU California, California Working Families Party, and Bay Rising Action.
Based on our analysis, Ortega’s and Esteen’s track records and policy positions demonstrate that both will be a progressive champions for the constituents of AD-20 and will govern effectively in the best interest of this diverse district.
Mark DeSaulnier
Reelect Congressional Representative Mark DeSaulnier to keep CD-10 on the right track for progress.
Elect Liz Ortega or Jennifer Esteen to push AD-20 in the right direction.
The Position
State assemblymembers represent and advocate for the needs of their district constituents at the California State Capitol. They are responsible for creating, debating, and voting on legislation that addresses issues within their district. The California State Assembly has 80 districts. Each represents a population of at least 465,000 Californians. Representatives are elected to the Assembly for a two-year term. Every two years, all 80 seats are subject to election. Members elected before 2012 are restricted to three two-year terms (six years) in the Assembly. Those elected in or after 2012 are allowed to serve 12 years total across both the state Senate or the Assembly. This term, Democrats currently hold a two-thirds supermajority of 56 seats in the California State Assembly, while Republicans hold 19 seats. One seat is held by an Independent and four seats are currently vacant.
The District
California’s 20th Assembly District includes parts of Alameda County. Democrats have held this district since 2008. Of the registered voters in this district, 56% are Democrat and 13% are Republican, and the district’s demographic breakdown is 24% Latino, 32% Asian, and 10% Black. The most recent election results show that AD-20 voted for Biden for president in 2020 by 52 points and Newsom for governor in 2018 by 50 points.
The Race
There are four candidates running for this seat, including Democrats Liz Ortega, Jennifer Esteen, and Shawn Kumagai. Ortega’s campaign has raised $200,000 and is not funded by police, real estate, fossil fuel, or corporate money. Esteen’s campaign has raised over $300,000 and is also not funded by police, real estate, fossil fuel, or corporate money. Kumagai’s campaign has not committed to a no real estate pledge and is funded by several real estate interests.