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BEVAN DUFTY

Bevan Dufty serves as the Director of Housing, Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement (HOPE) in Mayor Ed Lee's administration managing homeless services and supportive housing for San Francisco. He 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. His term on the Board ended in 2010 and Bevan ran for Mayor of San Francisco in the 2011 election.

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.

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