Conversation with Councilmember Nithya Raman
Please join Cassim Shepard for a conversation with Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman on Zoom.
Tuesday, January 9th, 8:00 pm EST / 5:00 pm PST
Zoom Link Provided upon RSVP
About Nithya:
Nithya Raman is a working mother, a community organizer, and Los Angeles City Councilmember.
Nithya was born in Kerala, India, and moved to America when she was six. After graduating from Harvard and receiving a Master’s in urban planning from MIT, she worked on urban poverty issues in India, advocating for access to water and basic sanitation in slums. She moved to Los Angeles and started a family. When she saw an increase in tents, she co-founded a volunteer group, the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, to provide services and outreach to people living on the street. As SELAH grew, she increasingly sensed a gap between the urgency she and her fellow volunteers felt and the urgency with which local government acted. She ran for City Council, and after receiving the most votes for a Los Angeles City Councilmember ever, became the city’s first Asian woman and first South Asian ever elected to city government, and her district’s first female Councilmember.
In office, she has prioritized responsiveness and effectiveness within her district while stewarding groundbreaking citywide legislation. She has established a homelessness team that has housed hundreds, and a field staff that works diligently and effectively to meet residents’ needs and assist district businesses. Her legislation has resulted in a citywide commitment to carbon-free construction, and the strongest suite protections for LA tenants in nearly 40 years. She is now leading governance and ethics reform legislation that would expand LA’s City Council for the first time since 1925.
Nithya lives in Silverlake, with her husband Vali and two adorable twins, Karna and Kaveri.
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