Jacqueline Flin, Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, has recently agreed to join the Parks Alliance as Interim Blue Greenway Director. Jackie takes on this role as part of her ongoing leadership at APRI, and has already been partnering with the Parks Alliance in the extensive community engagement in support of the India Basin design. 

Jackie began her career in union labor with Service International Employees Union, Local 790 (now Local 1021), in 2000 as an administrative assistant supporting union activities within the local. She has several years of experience working at the California Labor Federation AFL-CIO, participating in legislative campaigns and grassroots organizing, promoting and defending the interests of working people and their families for the betterment of California’s communities. Over the past 11 years, Jackie has been a volunteer participant in the 1997 Youth Labor Study administered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, designed to attain employment statistics and background information on United States youth. Jackie graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Cellular Biology from the University of California, Davis.

SF Parks Alliance Board Member and Blue Greenway Board Committee Chair Leah Pimentel is an environmentalist and champion to families living in San Francisco.  She was named one of the “Bay Area’s People to Watch in 2014” by the San Francisco Chronicle, describing her as “a young, politically active mother. . .”  She is also an Office of Community Infrastructure and Investment (OCII) commissioner.

She is a third-generation San Franciscan who has worked extensively to advance policies that help women and children thrive in the city.  She has received numerous awards for her work in these areas including Good Morning America’s “Hero Award” and KPIX’s “Jefferson Award for Public Service”.

She spent much of her career advocating for solar panels for low and moderate income families in the southeast neighborhoods.  

In 2013, Leah joined San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu and an extraordinary coalition of parents, advocates for working families, and community organizations to enact the Family Workplace Ordinance.  This is one of the most visionary policies in the country for parents and caregivers.  It ensures that every employee has a “right to request” a flexible work arrangement when caregiving responsibility arise for a child, family member or parent.  As a working parent, Leah knows that we need to do more to help families stay in San Francisco and believes that this groundbreaking legislation is great start.

Mrs. Pimentel’s past and current community and civic activities include: Saint Ignatius College Preparatory Alumni Board Member, San Francisco Women’s Political Committee Board Member; San Francisco Young Democrats’ Board Member; California Democratic Party, Voter Services Committee member, and San Francisco Parks Alliance Board Member.

Supervisor Malia Cohen was elected in November 2010 and re-elected in November 2014 to represent the residents of San Francisco’s 10th District, including the Bayview Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods.

She is a dedicated champion of the Blue Greenway.

Supervisor Cohen serves as Chair of the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee and as the President of the San Francisco Employee Retirement System (SFERS), which oversees a $20 billion fund. She is also a member of the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee, San Francisco County Transportation Authority and the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board.

Since being elected Supervisor for San Francisco’s tenth district in 2010, Supervisor Cohen has prioritized developing policies and legislation that keeps the residents of San Francisco’s Southeastern neighborhoods working, healthy and safe. Consistent with these principles Supervisor Cohen sponsored the Pregnancy Information Disclosure and Protection Ordinance prohibiting limited services pregnancy centers from making false or misleading statements about their services. After passage, this measure was challenged in court and upheld in its entirety.

In 2014, Supervisor Cohen authored the Fair Chance Ordinance, which regulates the use of commercial background checks by employers and affordable housing providers. The Ordinance removes any inquiry into a conviction history on a job or housing application and delay any background check until the employer or housing provider has determined that the individual’s qualifications meet the requirements for the position or the housing unit. The legislation will remove unnecessary barriers to employment and housing for qualified, skilled individuals seeking jobs and stable homes and will promote public safety by reducing obstacles to stabilizing factors for the nearly 7 million adult Californians with a conviction record.

Supervisor Cohen has also authored three ordinances regulating types of especially lethal ammunition, high capacity firearm magazines and giving law enforcement additional tools to combat gun violence. These ordinances increase San Francisco’s already tough stance on firearm regulation.

Most recently, Supervisor Cohen championed the efforts on the Neighborhood Preference legislation, which prioritizes 40 percent of all affordable housing in new development projects for those who live in the existing neighborhoods.

Supervisor Cohen was born and raised in San Francisco. She earned a BA in Political Science from Fisk University and a MS in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Driven by the desire to improve the health of her family and community, Marie Harrison led the closure of an extremely old and dirty power plant.

Marie Harrison is a well-known and respected Bayview native. As a true leader, Marie inspires her community, by encouraging and empowering them to speak their voice. Her advocacy career began while working with public housing tenants. During that time she realized the importance of connecting her community to the surrounding environment. When her grandson began to suffer from chronic bloody noses and asthma, Marie knew the surrounding industrial factories were to blame. At the time, government policies failed to regulate the emissions of factories or monitor the air quality of San Francisco's southeast. For ten years, Marie and other Bayview Residents led a campaign for closure of the PG&E Power Plant. In 1999, Marie joined Greenaction, as a community organizer focusing on environmental justice in the Bayview. After years of conflict with city government, the community prevailed, and in 2006 the PG&E Power Plant finally closed.

Marie’s love for the community guides her work and she continues to advocate for their environmental justice. Today she serves on a variety of city committees, such as the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative and the Environmental Justice Air Quality Coalition. For the last two years, Marie, Greenaction, and SF Environment have spearheaded the Bayview Environmental Justice Task Force. This task force creates collaboration between multi agency stakeholders and empowers residents to take active roles in their community. She continues to invite and encourage new individuals to share their experiences, so city agencies can better understand the community's needs. She believes “Together they have the power. No one can speak for them, if they don’t talk.” Greenaction also recently created the Climate Justice Leadership Academy, a summit to educate and empower a series of Bayview residents.  Marie also continues to support the Blue Greenway, by providing a valuable environmental and local perspective to developers, leading city agencies, and project organizers. While her main focus may seem localized to Bayview-Hunters Point community, the environmental and social benefits are felt throughout the city.