FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Friday, July 20, 2018
Contact: Mayor’s Office of Communications, 415-554-6131

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MAYOR LONDON BREED APPOINTS IVY LEE TO CITY COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Lee to fill vacant seat

San Francisco, CA—Mayor London Breed today appointed Ivy Lee to serve on the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees.

Lee is filling the seat vacated by Rafael Mandelman, who was elected to the Board of Supervisors representing District 8 in the June 2018 election. Lee is a civil rights attorney whose practice has focused on defending and advancing the rights of survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence and sexual assault for over a decade. For the past five years she served as Chief of Staff for Supervisor Jane Kim, during which time she staffed legislation designed to open opportunities and access to marginalized communities, including the Free City College program, which established San Francisco’s City College as the first free institution of higher learning in the United States.

“I am proud to appoint Ivy Lee to the City College Board of Trustees today because we share a commitment to the continued success of City College and an equitable education system,” said Mayor London Breed. “City College is a vital community resource for San Franciscans from all walks of life—young people seeking to advance their education, our immigrant communities, adults going back to school, and individuals re-entering society. We all benefit from having a strong, vibrant City College. I know Ivy will continue to help improve City College for years to come.”

Prior to joining Supervisor Kim’s staff in 2013, Lee directed the Immigrant Rights & Human Trafficking Project at Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach in San Francisco. At APILO, she represented immigrant survivors of crime for immigration and civil relief; conducted legislative and policy advocacy at the local, state and federal levels, and provided training and technical assistance for law enforcement agencies as well as nongovernmental organizations nationwide. Before APILO, Lee was a staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus after completing her Thurgood Marshall Fellowship at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

“I am honored to be appointed to the CCSF Board of Trustees by Mayor Breed,” said Lee. “Throughout my career I have fought for underserved and underrepresented members of our communities and was proud to work on bringing the Free City College program to fruition. As a Trustee I will continue to fight to ensure that all of our communities can benefit from an education at City College.”

Lee is the author of Representing Survivors of Human Trafficking: A Promising Practices Handbook, 1st and 2nd editions and is also published in the Journal of International Law and Policy at UC Davis School of Law and in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1998 after graduating cum laude from the University of California, San Diego. She has served as a commissioner on the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission and as a Board Officer of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Lee is 46 years old has three children, ages 10, 12, and 14, and is raising her family with her husband, the Honorable Victor Hwang in the Sunset District here in San Francisco.

She will serve until the November 2019 election.

To view Mayor Breed’s live remarks regarding the appointment of Lee, visit her Facebook page at Facebook.com/MayorLondonBreed.

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