Jaime is an SFUSD mom and an experienced fighter for San Franciscans.
Jaime is the daughter of a conservative car salesman and a working class Latina who raised her with progressive Catholic values. Growing up, she learned how to be a fighter.
She headed off for college, ready to become the first woman on her mom’s side of the family to earn a college degree. Beyond the classroom, she encountered a school culture that ignored rampant sexual assault against her fellow students. That transformed her into an activist, leading campus organizing for to hold the administration accountable for student safety.
At Stanford Law, Jaime became the first and only lawyer in her family. One of the first cases she worked on was for for marriage equality in California. After our own former mayor, Gavin Newsom, made the brave decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Jaime joined with exceptional legal advocates to help secure marriage equality statewide.
Jaime moved to San Francisco nearly twenty years ago, and has been a public servant for over a decade. As a Deputy City Attorney, she has fought for the people of San Francisco, winning cases that people once thought were impossible, including securing $350 million to fight the opioid epidemic on our streets.
Jaime is the mom of a second grader in SFUSD Spanish immersion school and a toddler. She is running for the Board of Education because she believes that every student in our district deserves an educational environment that will support and challenge them so that they can see just how far they can go.