IGS National Advisory Council
BEVAN DUFTY
Bevan Dufty was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in
December 2002 and re-elected in November 2006, representing San
Francisco's District 8. District 8 encompasses Noe Valley, the Castro,
Glen Park, Diamond Heights, Duboce Triangle, Dolores Park & San
Jose / Guerrero, and Buena Vista Heights neighborhoods.
Voted “Most Radical” by his classmates at Menlo-Atherton High School,
Supervisor Dufty describes his professional career as moving up and
down the political food chain. At 21, he worked on Capitol Hill in the
most powerful legislative arena in the world. Decades later, as
Director of Neighborhood Services at the Mayor's Office in San
Francisco, he came to realize that it is really local government that
has the power to change lives in a tangible way by honoring the public
trust, by being timely, responsive, respectful and by solving one
problem at a time.
Supervisor Dufty learned that a little time devoted to little things
can make a big difference. He encouraged Mayor Brown to launch the Open
Door Program, a Saturday morning forum that provided an opportunity for
individual San Franciscans to talk privately with the mayor about their
individual problems. That program alone gave thousands of people
personal access to their mayor in a way that never occurred before. And
countless problems were solved.
On a community level he has continued to work in close partnership with neighborhood
and merchant groups throughout District 8. His years in Neighborhood Services taught
him that any problem, large or small, can be addressed when you bring
together concerned neighbors, merchants, community organizations and
City Departments.
On a political level, he is a member of the Alice B. Toklas, Raoul
Wallenberg and Robert F. Kennedy Democratic Clubs. Bevan is also a
Founder of San Francisco's LGBT Community Center and a member of San
Francisco Front Runner's. Bevan is the proud papa to his daughter,
Sidney Maely Goldfader-Dufty, who is almost three.
