Sara Lamnin for Hayward City Council

Leader

• Chair of the City of Hayward Planning Commission
  
• Former Chair and Member of Hayward Citizen's Advisory Commission
• Founder of the Alameda County Tools for School Collaborative - an innovative program that provided 11,000 backpacks filled with school supplies to students in need 
• Founding member of Hayward Coalition for Healthy Youth
• Past co-chair of the South Hayward Neighborhood Collaborative and past chair of TEAM - the North Hayward Collaborative
  
• Honored as a Local Hero in the Neighborhood Excellence Initiative Awards by Bank of America

Program Manager

• Program Director, Hayward Community Action Network – a program of South Hayward Parish working to develop sustainable solutions to end homelessness in Hayward
• Former Program Manager, Kinship Support Services Program of the Lincoln Child Center - provided recreation, respite, and support services to Grandparents and other Relatives raising children
• 16 Years of event planning/management experience

Advocate

• Led local, state, and national advocacy efforts for Kinship families 
• Member, HUSD Fiscal Integrity Transparency Advisory Group (FITAG)
• Former Member, City of Hayward's Sustainability Committee
• Member, Eden Youth and Family Center Task Force
• Former Member, Development Review Process Focus Group
• Member, Eden Area League of Women Voters
• Member, Hayward Rotary
• Member, America Association of University Women

Sara received her Bachelor of Arts in Therapeutic Recreation at San Francisco State University (1996), and her Masters of Science in Healthcare Administration at California State University Hayward (2006). Sara is also a graduate from Leadership Hayward, Emerge, and University of Pittsburgh's Intergenerational Specialist leadership training programs.

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