Ayanna Davis
Ayanna Davis serves as a trustee on the Compton Unified School District board and works as an educator. She is running to succeed termed-out Assemblymember Mike Gipson. Her priorities are fully funding public schools, expanding affordable housing, and addressing public safety through real investment in young people and community resources alongside enforcement.
Why We Endorsed: Ayanna Davis is a Compton Unified School District trustee and educator with a focused agenda on public schools, housing affordability, and community safety in a district that is feeling acute pressure on all three.
Alignment With NCC Priorities: Ayanna serves on a school board in a city that is working through some of the toughest housing supply and homelessness challenges in the state, including the long shadow of the Los Angeles County encampment crisis. Her platform on affordable housing aligns directly with NCC's Build Baby Build agenda, and her work on the Compton USD board has required engaging with the wraparound services that NCC's homelessness task force treats as essential to ending unsheltered homelessness for good. Ayanna brings the perspective of an educator and a parent to a seat that needs both.
Learn More: ayannadavis.com
Assembly District
65
The Race
District 65 is a Los Angeles County seat that includes Compton and parts of Carson, Long Beach, and Los Angeles. It is safely Democratic, with 56 percent of voters registered as Democrats. The seat is open because Assemblymember Mike Gipson is termed out. Davis faces fellow Democrats Fatima Iqbal-Zubair, Vinson Eugene Allen, Lamar Lyons, president of the San Pedro Central Neighborhood Council, and Magali Sanchez-Hall. Republican Lydia Gutierrez is also on the ballot. The top two finishers in June will likely both be Democrats.
A New California Starts With This Slate
Together, these fourteen candidates are the slate NCC believes can move California forward in 2026. They come from cities and counties up and down the state, from different backgrounds and different parties, and from different chapters of California's story. What they share is a commitment to getting things done: finding solutions to homelessness, building the housing, securing the water and energy, and growing the middle class jobs that working Californians need now. NCC stands behind each of them, and we are asking voters in their districts to join us. The California Dream is worth fighting for, and these are the leaders who will help us bring it back within reach.
June 2026 NCC Races: the map highlights Senate Districts 12, 14, 22, 26, and 34, and Assembly Districts 12, 31, 34, 35, 47, 65, 66, 67, and 68