Supervisor Carmen Chu currently serves as the city’s representative to the Sunset/Parkside District. She was appointed as the District 4 Supervisor in September 2007 and then elected to the Board in November 2008.
Prior to joining the Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Chu worked to improve the lives of San Francisco residents through her three-year tenure at the Mayor’s Office of Public Policy and Finance.
Some projects that Supervisor Chu worked on through the Mayor’s Office included: Healthy San Francisco – the first-of-its-kind universal health care program for all residents; the 311 Customer Service Center – a centralized point of access where anyone can access services or information 24/7; and the development of long-term fiscal projections for the City & County of San Francisco.
Under Supervisor Chu’s direction, San Francisco was awarded the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award in 2006-2007 from the Government Finance Officers Association for the annual proposed budget document.
In addition to her extensive involvement in developing the city’s annual budget, Supervisor Chu brings with her significant policy and finance experience through her work at the San Francisco Board of Supervisor’s Office of the Legislative Analyst and as a consultant with Public Financial Management, Inc., a private consulting firm that specialized in helping municipalities manage their debt and finance large public works projects.
Supervisor Chu received two degrees in public policy: a B.A. from Occidental College, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa (2000). Supervisor Chu also earned a Master’s degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, where she was the distinguished recipient of a PPIA fellowship (2003).
Currently, Supervisor Chu serves on the Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Finance Committee, which reviews and holds public hearings on the Mayor’s annual proposed budget. Supervisor Chu was also appointed as Chair of the City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee, which reviews legislation related to public works, infrastructure, parks and recreation, utilities, public protection, delinquency prevention, public health, emergency services, seniors, the disabled, children and their families. Supervisor Chu is also a member of the California State Association of Counties and the Urban Counties Caucus, serving as a voice for San Francisco on state issues.
Eric Mar
Supervisor Eric Mar was elected in November 2008 to represent District 1, the Richmond District. For over two decades, Eric has been a dedicated and responsive advocate for working families, youth and seniors, small businesses and all the diverse residents of the Richmond District and San Francisco.
From 2000 to 2008, Eric served as a Commissioner and past President of the San Francisco Board of Education. He led efforts to clean up corruption and financial mismanagement, close the achievement gap, strengthen parental involvement in educational policy-making and increase resources for public education.
From 1992 to 2008, Eric taught Asian American and Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University where he mentored and supported hundreds of young people to become active in their communities and the political process.
He is also an elected member and past Vice Chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party’s Central Committee. Eric has worked to strengthen the local Democratic Party and build bridges with grassroots communities.
Eric is the past director of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights and a longtime social justice activist with the Chinese Progressive Association and other grassroots organizations. As a public interest attorney, he served on the Human Rights Committee of the State Bar of California and the Civil Rights Committee of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. He is an ally of the labor movement and a past shop steward with SEIU Local 790.
Since 1986, Eric has lived in the Richmond District with his wife Sandra Chin-Mar, a public school teacher. Their daughter Jade Mar is a 3rd grader at McCoppin Elementary School in the Inner Richmond.
Steve Ngo
Steve Ngo was elected to the San Francisco Community College Board in 2008. Steve was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He received his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles. He later received his Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University and a law degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
He currently serves as Chair of the Civil Rights Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area and as pro bono general counsel for APIA Vote, a national voting rights organization. He is also an active volunteer with API Equality, an organization working for equal marriage rights and fair treatment of the lesbian and gay community.
He has successfully represented individuals in negligence and employment discrimination cases as an attorney. Before becoming an attorney, Steve was a budget consultant for the California State Assembly Budget Committee, where he advised legislators on $3.1 billion worth of spending proposals. He served in state government as a recipient of the Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship. He continued his public service as a law clerk for the California Attorney General’s Energy Task Force, a specially formed group that pursued price gouging and other unfair business practices claims against energy companies.
Steve’s commitment to civil rights and education is rooted in his family’s refugee experience. After fleeing Vietnam for the United States, Steve’s mother worked in the service industry as a waitress and nail salon technician in New Orleans, Louisiana. After 20 years, she eventually opened her own nail salon business. His father took jobs as a busboy, roofer, and chef, and later attended community college to become an auto body repair technician. Steve’s mother only had a third grade education and his father only completed the eighth grade, but in America they were able to build a better life through hard work and vocational education.
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