Candidate for
Supervisor; County of San Francisco; District 9

Lucrecia Bermudez running for SF Board of Supervisors, District 9

Lucrecia is a successful financial consultant for non-profits, a dedicated mother, an outstanding activist for l/g/b/t and immigrant rights, a person of integrity and commitment.

Professionally, she helps grassroots non-profit organizations to comply with State and Federal law including audits, participates in their contract negotiations with government agencies and private funders and helps them to achieve sound financial funding and practices in order to guarantee the continuation of valuable community services.

Her job has acquainted her with multi-million dollar budgets.

Public Advocate and Activist (Highlights):

Co-author of the 1996 Non-Citizens Voting Rights Act.

Co-author of the 2000 Bayview Hunters Point Reparations Act

Co-Coordinator Immigrant Pride Day 1997-2004

Co-Coordinator Immigrant Rights Movement (MDI) 1996-2004

Member, Coordinating Committee, New Progressive Left Movement

Member of the Green Party. Endorsed and campaigned for Ralph Nader for President in 1996 and 2000

Endorsed and campaigned for Matt Gonzalez for Mayor in 2003

Activist with the immigrant rights labor advocacy movement

Participant in the production of Alternatives Families, a video promoting understanding of different life styles for Channel 14, and IMPACTO a Chilean weekly TV show

Organizer of the Five Hundred Years of Indigenous and Popular Resistance - CHASQUI, San Francisco, 1990

Public Speaking and workshop leader at: National LLEGO Conference, San José, 1993

Making the Connections Conference, UC Santa Cruz, 1988

Lesbian and Gay Week, UC Berkeley, 1988

Bay Area Lesbian of Color Conference, San Francisco Women's Centers, 1988

Participated in the First Somos Hermanas Delegation to Nicaragua and was member of the Coordinating Committee of the West Coast Women's Conference on Central America, San Francisco, 1984

Professional Career (Highlights):

Presently Lucrecia is working at the Homeless Children's Network

Member of neighborhood committees as a lead writer for an Spanish-language newspaper

Former Finance Director of the California Prevention and Education Project, Administrative Director of Community United Against Violence (CUAV) and Assistant Director of La Raza Centro Legal.

Education (Highlights):

Flora Tristán's International Seminar Citizenship and Politics, Lima, Perú, 1997

Microcomputer Applications, Southeast Community College, SF, 1990

UWBA, Community Leadership and Non-Profit Management Training, SF, 1990

Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Perú, Biology/Public Health Administration, 1975-1979

Other important Memberships (Highlights):

International Fund Panel member - Astraea National Lesbian Foundation, 1997-2001

Board of Directors - Mobilization Against AIDS, 1996-2001

Board member - Grantmaking Committee of the Funding Exchange, 1995-2001

Nominations committee member Annual LAVA Award, 1994-1996

Board and representative member Out Fund of the Funding Exchange, 1993-2001

Allocations committee member--Vanguard Foundation, 1991-2001

Member of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - Latin-American Program, 1991-2002

Founder of Perú, Salud y Vida for People with AIDS in Perú and the Comité José María Arguedas, an information center about the situation of Human Rights in Perú, 1992

Board of directors--CURAS, Community United in Response to AIDS, 1991

Cultural Interests

Curator of the Archives, 1994, and participant in the 2nd, 3rd and 6th Visual Arts Exhibit of Latino/Latina Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Artists, San Francisco 1992,1993 and 1996

Developed and produced Habla Perú, La Voz del Silencio, a Peruvian Film and Video Festival, SF, 1992, and Art Giving Life, a Benefit Art Auction for People with AIDS in Perú, San Francisco, 1991

Debate en San José. Researched, developed, produced and presented a slide show on the Second Latin-American and Caribbean Lesbian Gathering in Costa Rica, San Francisco, 1990

Encuentro. Researched, developed, produced and presented a slide show on the Second Latin-American Women's Gathering in Perú, San Francisco, 1983-1984