Monifa Bandele is the Vice President & Chief Partnership and Equity Officer at MomsRising.org. She has more than a decade of experience in policy analysis, communications, civic engagement organizing, and project management working with groups like the Brennan Center for Justice, Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund, and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. At MomsRising.org she manages the food justice campaign, helping to successfully increase children’s access to healthy food and working to stem junk food marketing. Forbes has named MomsRising.org one of the top websites for women four years in a row. During her tenure at the Brennan Center as national field director for the Right to Vote Campaign, the coalition successfully changed laws in five state expanding the franchise to more that 250,000 formerly incarcerated people.
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The Office of Race and Equity was established in June 2020 after the murder of George Floyd and a national outcry for racial justice. The office was proposed by Councilwoman Monica Montgomery Steppe to address inequities in San Diego. Kim Desmond s appointment as the new Chief Race and Equity Officer reflects our pledge to lead this region in creating an equity ecosystem, said Montgomery Steppe.
Montgomery Steppe called Desmond the clear choice. Her experience, expertise, transparency and bold leadership will help to assist in our city s efforts to implement sweeping systemic changes in pursuit of racial, social and economic justice.
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