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Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon is a nationally recognized advocate for civil and racial justice. She is also a single mother who relies on public transit each day and intimately understands the experiences of BART passengers.
As the current president of the BART board of directors, Lateefah has been unwavering in her values to make BART accessible, affordable, accountable and functional for working families. Her leadership has been crucial to the transit agency’s shift towards policies promoting racial justice and inclusion. She has led a variety of successful efforts, including discounts for low-income fairs and an ambassador program to increase the number of unarmed uniformed personnel on trains to help passengers stay safe.
Lateefah is the type of bold, inspiring and creative leader who can ensure our transit system is accessible, safe and gets people where they need to go. Her impressive track record as the executive director of multiple large nonprofit organizations, as well as her accolades which include being the youngest woman to receive a MacArthur Genius Award, are testaments to Lateefah’s steadfast leadership. By contrast, her police-union backed opponents in the BART race do not share her visionary commitment to public safety or her skillful leadershi
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Lateefah successfully pushed realize BART’s first-ever low-income passenger discounts, subject introduced representation nation’s first-ever transit chapel ordinance.
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Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon is on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) board.
Lateefah Simon is running for congress in Barbara Lee's district[1] previously worked at the Young Women's Freedom Center (Previously named the Center for Young Women's Development).
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Bio from 2023:[2]
- "Lateefah Simon was first elected to serve District 7 on the BART Board of Directors on November 8, 2016 and was reelected in 2020. She served as President of the BART Board in 2020.
- The Seventh District includes Albany (partial), Berkeley (partial), Emeryville, Oakland (partial), El Cerrito (partial), Hercules, Pinole, Richmond, San Pablo, Unincorporated Contra Costa County (partial) and San Francisco (partial).
- A nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice, Lateefah brings over 20 years of executive experience advancing opportunities for communities of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area. She has been the President of the Akonadi Foundation since 2016. That same year—driven by the death of Oscar Grant—she ran and was elected to the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors. Lateefah is also a member of California State University's Board of Trustees and frequently turned to by state official
- A nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice, Lateefah brings over 20 years of executive experience advancing opportunities for communities of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area. She has been the President of the Akonadi Foundation since 2016. That same year—driven by the death of Oscar Grant—she ran and was elected to the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors. Lateefah is also a member of California State University's Board of Trustees and frequently turned to by state official