Geramye Teeter

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Geramye Teeter

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Last election

November 3, 2020

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Geramye Teeter ran for election to the San Francisco Community College Board in California. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.

Teeter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2020

See also: City elections in San Francisco, California (2020)

General election

General election for San Francisco Community College Board (4 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for San Francisco Community College Board on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Shanell Williams (Nonpartisan)	18.0	195,356
✔		Tom Temprano (Nonpartisan)	17.2	186,583
✔		Aliya Chisti (Nonpartisan)	11.7	126,904
✔		Alan Wong (Nonpartisan)	11.4	123,437
		Anita Martinez (Nonpartisan)	10.8	117,629
		Marie Hurabiell (Nonpartisan)	8.0	86,726
	Submit photo	Han Zou (Nonpartisan)	6.9	74,975
		Victor Olivieri (Nonpartisan)	6.7	72,840
		Jeanette Quick (Nonpartisan)	5.3	57,925
		Geramye Teeter (Nonpartisan)	2.4	25,580
	Submit photo	Dominic Ashe (Nonpartisan)	1.7	18,556

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2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Geramye Teeter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Teeter's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

My name is Geramye Teeter, and I'm running for the San Francisco Community College Board. I have a great job as an energy efficiency project manager; I love spending time with my partner, Eric; and I am an active member in my community, here in the Bayview neighborhood of the city. As a Black man that has felt counted out many times in the past, education has afforded me the opportunities to get ahead and that is why I believe education is a human right. Advancing tuition-free education at CCSF allows our most vulnerable students a chance to make a difference in their lives.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• The climate crisis is my call to action. In March, San Francisco voters approved 845 million dollars in bond funds for CCSF infrastructure improvements. Using this funding, my priority will be putting the Green New Deal into action. I will develop a Carbon Neutrality plan with the goal of achieving net zero emissions for all campus operations by 2030.
• With 'Students First' as our guiding principle, I will nominate a community-oriented Chancellor who is committed to implementing a strategic plan that achieves financial stability and sustained accreditation. Resolving the budget deficit requires engaging our elected leaders to prioritize education by allocating equal funding.
• We will ensure taxpayer funds are allocated for creating, maintaining, and enhancing Workforce Development. We will deliver high-demand training programs, protect tuition-free education, upgrade our learning spaces, and champion the opportunities CCSF offers.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am most passionate about Environmental and Energy Policy because it ties in with some many areas of public policy i.e. Cultural, Economic, Educational, Labor, Social/Inequality, and Urban Policy. If I could be honest, I have only recently begun tapping into my political activism. But I have not felt an inclination to become a member of any political organizations in San Francisco because I feel like my approach to policy, my personal mission, and what I'd like to accomplish, does not align well with many of them.

One of my long term goals is to establish a policy action trust (a PAT) that prioritizes the issues that many people face on a daily basis here, where I live, in the Bayview/Hunter's Point. These neighborhoods are the most environmentally vulnerable, and thus have some of the most impoverished and forgotten residents of the city.

The EPA recently awarding $600,000 in Brownfield Grants to help rejuvenate our community is an insufficient, grandstanding gesture at best; much more is required. Not only do we need to address the problem of cleaning and redeveloping our contaminated properties, but we need to create environmental jobs to get that job done. We need to provide funding to revitalize the Bayview/Hunter's Point economies. And we need to offer residents a Workforce Development program that provides the skills for gainful employment, like the one we can continue to build on at the City College of San Francisco.

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