Sara Hernandez

Sara started her career as an LAUSD teacher in South Los Angeles and founded a nonprofit to help disadvantaged youth reach college. She later worked as a staffer at Los Angeles City Hall and practiced as a housing and environmental attorney before being elected to the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees in 2022, where she now serves as board president. She helped found DTLA Strong, a community group organized around Downtown Los Angeles housing and quality-of-life issues. She has lived in Los Angeles for more than 20 years, is a mother of a six-year-old son, and is running on an agenda centered on housing production, universal childcare, education, and public safety.

Why We Endorsed: Sara Hernandez is a Los Angeles Community College District trustee, former LAUSD teacher, housing and environmental attorney, and the sitting board president at a time when California's community colleges are the workforce backbone of the middle class.

Alignment With NCC Priorities: Sara's housing platform is one of the most pro-supply positions in the field. She calls for more multifamily housing in urban areas, especially near transit and jobs, more density in high-opportunity neighborhoods, streamlined approvals and inspections, staffing increases for permitting departments, more viable duplexes and fourplexes, and stronger enforcement of state housing law against resistant cities. That is the full practical blueprint of NCC's pro-housing agenda. Her commitment to protecting California film and television production work also lines up with NCC's middle class jobs priorities. Her endorsements include a long list of state senators who would become her colleagues, labor and healthcare unions, and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta.

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