San Francisco Mayor London Breed ’97 will be Chancellor Gary S. May’s
guest for the Chancellor's Colloquium to be shown at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.
23, 2021.
She is the second woman to serve as mayor of San
Francisco, after now-Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and the second African
American, after Willie Brown, and the first woman of color. “It’s not
just about being the first, it’s also remembering that ... I can’t be
the last,” she said in conversation with Chancellor May before an
audience of alumni and others in an Aggie Leadership Series program held
in San Francisco City Hall in August 2019.
Prior to serving as mayor, Breed spent six years on the
Board of Supervisors, including three as president. She grew up in San
Francisco, raised by her grandmother in public housing, and said
political science classes at UC Davis inspired her to try to improve her
hometown.
“I really wanted to do something that would change my
community, because I grew up in poverty, and I grew up where there was
really a lot of violence and a lot of challenges,” she said in 2019. “And, I thought, ‘Well, this could help me change my community.’”
