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Noni Session

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Noni Session
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Education

Bachelor's

San Francisco State University

Graduate

Cornell University

Personal
Profession
Assistant librarian
Contact

Personal website


Noni Session was a candidate for District 3 of the Oakland City Council in California. She was defeated in the general election on November 8, 2016.

Although city council elections in Oakland are officially nonpartisan, Session is known to be a member of the Democratic Party.[1]

Biography

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Session obtained a B.A. in cultural anthropology and black studies from San Francisco State University and an M.A. in anthropology from Cornell University.[2]

Her professional experience includes work as an assistant librarian. She is also the treasurer and one of the founding organizers of State of Black Oakland, which aims to identify ways to improve life for members of Oakland's black community.[3][4][5]

Campaign themes

2016

Sessions' 2016 campaign website highlighted the following issues:[6]

“

End Oakland’s housing crisis

  • Level the rental playing field through adjusting the current definition of 'affordable'
  • Staunch the outflow of Oakland residents through vigorous implementation and enforcement of real renter protections
  • Prioritize models for funding that permanently re-house Oakland’s rising homeless population
  • Use current public land and existing housing inventory for inclusionary and permanently affordable housing; Public land should be used for public good.

Expand Economic Opportunity

  • Permanently fund neighborhood employment centers
  • Direct business development support to cooperative and community-based economic development models.
  • Cultivate healthy, sustainable, local economy that can withstand larger market fluctuations by funding programs that make entry points to small business ownership simple using a small business development model.

Create Peaceful, Empowered Communities

  • Prioritize funding for holistic programs that decrease the need for policing.
  • Strengthen citizens’ police accountability measures.
  • Implement a community policing model and change recruitment, training, and residency requirements for new officers.
  • Strengthen partnerships between city hall and youth services departments to ensure equitable distribution of summer and after-school services city-wide

Build Community-Based Solutions for Community Governance

  • Foster community access to government officials for community access time
  • Build Neighborhood Assemblies
  • Support civic education initiatives to create equitable access to governance[7]
 ”

Elections

2016

See also: Municipal elections in Oakland, California (2016)

The city of Oakland, California, held elections for city council in 2016. Five of the eight city council seats were up for election. Incumbent Lynette Gibson McElhaney defeated Noni Session in the general election for the District 3 seat on the Oakland City Council.[8]

Oakland City Council District 3, General Election, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Lynette Gibson McElhaney Incumbent 56.03% 13,025
Noni Session 43.13% 10,026
Write-in votes 0.84% 196
Total Votes 23,247
Source: Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "Certified Election Results," accessed December 1, 2016

Endorsements

Session received endorsements from the following in 2016:

  • ACCE Action[9]
  • Alameda Labor Council[9]
  • Community Democracy Project[1]
  • Green Party of Alameda County[9]
  • John George Democratic Club[1]
  • National Union of Healthcare Workers[9]
  • Oakland Alliance[9]
  • Oakland Justice Coalition[1]
  • Oakland Rising Action[9]
  • SEIU 1021[9]
  • Sierra Club[1]
  • Former Oakland Mayor Eugene "Gus" Newport[1]

Recent news

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Noni Session - Google News

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County, "2016 Endorsement Questionnaire," accessed September 20, 2016
  2. ↑ LinkedIn, "Noni Session," accessed September 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "General Election - 11/08/2016 (Official)," accessed September 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Noni D. Session for District 3 Council, "Your District 3 Candidate," accessed September 20, 2016
  5. ↑ The Post News Group, "State of Black Oakland (SOBO) Holds First Community Assembly," April 3, 2015
  6. ↑ Noni D. Session for District 3 Council, "A New Direction in Governance," September 4, 2016
  7. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  8. ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Elections, "Candidate List," accessed September 22, 2016
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Noni D. Session for District 3 Council, "Endorsements," accessed October 18, 2016
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