ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 41 - Sat, Jan 21st 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
UFCW Local 1428
705 W Arrow Hwy
Claremont, California 91711
Denise Robb
Denise Robb is a lifelong activist. Recently, she was involved in the successful Measure H rent control campaign in Pasadena. She is a proud PTA parent and former PTA President whose son attends Blair Middle/High School, a public school in Pasadena. Professor Robb has a Master’s and Ph.D. in political science. She teaches at Pierce College and is the student advisor to the Pierce College Democrats.
Dr. Robb is a suicide prevention trainer at Pierce, an active union member with the American Federation of Teachers, an environmentalist, supporter of LGBTQIA rights, an anti-racism advocate and an animal rescuer with five cats.
Steve Gibson
Steve Gibson is an educator and a published author of 20 fiction and academic books, including an academic book about international ethnic conflict. He helped Bernie win California in 2020 as staff organizer. If elected, Steve will push for redirecting public safety to reduce reliance on police and jails. Steven is an organizer within the Asian and Pacific Islander community, and DSA-LA. Steve serves as Pasadena City College Board of Trustee member.
Cindy Montoya
As an educator, gun violence survivor, and the Moms Demand Action State Survivor Co-lead, Cindy Montoya has been pivotal in addressing gun violence through legislative change at the local and state levels. This includes working with school boards to take action on secure firearm storage and helping to increase funding for grassroots community-based violence intervention and prevention programs. If re-elected, Cindy will continue to fight for common-sense gun safety laws and support legislation that invests in the root causes of gun violence.
Ryan Bell
Ryan is the Southern California Regional Coordinator with Tenants Together. He has been involved in organizing housing justice and other social justice campaigns in Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley for the past 15 years. While he was a pastor in Los Angeles he was a clergy organizer with LA Voice PICO and served as the chair of the clergy caucus for several years.
Ryan has also been the Director of Community of Engagement at PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), and is currently a member organizer with the Pasadena Tenants Union and a Pasadena City Commissioner on the Northwest Commission.
Ethan Reznik
Ethan Reznik spent the entirety of 2022 successfully advancing the campaigns of Democratic candidates, including Assessor Jeffrey Prang, Los Angeles Community College Trustee candidate Sara Hernandez, and Three Valleys Water Board candidate Jeff Hanlon, unseating two Republican incumbents in the process. As a disability housing advocate, he is working to enhance the Democratic Party's position on policies for housing low-income individuals who suffer from mental illness.
Charlottee Char Bland
Charlotte Bland is a wife, mother, grandmother, corporate executive, and community leader who is passionate about Justice for All initiatives. As the Chair of the National Women’s Political Caucus Greater Pasadena Area, Charlotte helps recruit, train, and elect progressive women to local elected and appointed offices. She is committed to empowering the voices of ALL Democrats and ensuring that our party reflects our commitment to justice reform, affordable housing, universal health care, reversing climate change, affordable higher education, immigration reform, diversity, and equity.
Brandon Lamar
Brandon Lamar is currently on the boards of Black Los Angeles Young Democrats and California Young Democrats. He is also the Founder and President of the Pasadena Young Democrats, which focuses on developing young people to be civically and politically engaged in local government.
Elvia Hernandez
Elvia Hernandez is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and community organizer. Her recent work has been organizing the High Desert community around progressive candidates and providing group therapy to justice-involved individuals in the San Bernardino County jail system.
Rachel L Forester
Rachel is a housing advocate and community volunteer. She has served as Vice-Chair of the Claremont Community and Human Services commission, is a past president of the League of Women Voters Mt. Baldy area, founding member of Inclusive Claremont, and active volunteer in her community, working on local political campaigns, educational fundraising boards and equity and inclusion committees at two local schools.
She lives and works in Claremont, where she grew up, with her family.
Sam Berndt
Sam Berndt has been a California Democratic Party delegate in AD41 for two terms, where he authored and passed resolutions calling for a Green New Deal to reduce carbon emissions at the rate that science demands, to develop and expand public energy utilities, to ban single-use plastics, and to cancel all student debt. Sam aims to continue to influence the California Democratic Party through resolutions and the Energy & Environment Platform to declare energy a human right, to make energy a public good, and to have the state source 100% of its energy from carbon-free sources by 2030.
Fernando G. Hernandez
My name is Fernando Hernandez, as a Vietnam war veteran I'm excited to bring my skills, knowledge, and experience to best represent the needs of our communities. I want to work with you to give the voiceless a voice and bring much-needed resources and opportunities to our community. Dedicated to bringing unity to our communities.
Isabelle P Huber
La Verne resident with a passion in education. Has been a parent representive a Benita Unified School District. A state chair for business and labor with California State Department of Education.
Dr. Yarma Velazquez
Dr. Vargas is a professor of Chicanx Studies at CSUN. She is a CFA union member and was recently elected as a Trustee for the Pasadena Unified School District. Yarma is an author and a parent. Yarma believes we must invest in the well-being of children and young people. Yarma will advocate for equitable access to health care, food, and public education.
Mark Copeland
My concern for my Community, my State, my Country is prompting me to ask for your vote. Sitting on the sidelines isn't going to keep our Democracy secure. Fighting to get the right people and legislation in place will ensure that our values and freedoms won't be taken away. I will work hard within the confines of the position to get the job done.
