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Phoebe Shin Venkat (Foster City City Council At-large, California, candidate 2024)
Phoebe Shin Venkat ran for election to the Foster City City Council At-large in California. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Venkat completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Phoebe Shin Venkat provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 8, 2024:
- Birth date: March 14, 1977
- Birth place: New Brunswick, New Jersey
- High school: South Brunswick High School
- Bachelor's: Boston University, 1999
- Gender: Female
- Religion: Christian
- Profession: Communications
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Let's Thrive Together
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Elections
General election
General election for Foster City City Council At-large (3 seats)
Richa Awasthi, Shankar Kenkre, Suzy Niederhofer, Patrick J. Sullivan, and Phoebe Shin Venkat ran in the general election for Foster City City Council At-large on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Richa Awasthi (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Shankar Kenkre (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Suzy Niederhofer (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Patrick J. Sullivan (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Phoebe Shin Venkat (Nonpartisan)  | |
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Phoebe Shin Venkat completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Venkat's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Community engagement and advocacy are not new to Phoebe. Since youth, Phoebe’s helped shape and build communities of all kinds. Phoebe was born and raised in New Jersey, by her immigrant working-class single mother. As the first person in her family to graduate from college, Phoebe's proud to be grounded in the unshakable values of strength, resilience, and community. Her goal in any experience – personal or professional – is to build bridges and bring people, ideas, and resources together.
Phoebe is married to an Indian-American business executive, and they are raising their teen son in Foster City since first moving here more than 10 years ago, when she was relocated for a key role with an SF tech company. Phoebe valuable experience in communications, community management, customer success, marketing, operations, leadership, and more. Organizations she’s worked for range from a 30-person startup, to a Fortune 5 company, as well as for herself.
In 2021, after a tragic health battle, Phoebe resolved to get more involved locally. Phoebe serves on the Foster City Planning Commission, and on the board of CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse). She also volunteers with seniors and youth in our community, and is an Executive Board Member of the San Mateo AAPI Alliance.- Public Safety: Ensure that law enforcement, fire department, and emergency response organizations have the innovative and foundational resources and tools they need to keep Foster City safe. Help create more awareness for hiring exceptional professionals to serve our City.
- Local Economy: Work with Foster City Chamber of Commerce and City Staff (specifically City Manager and Economic Development Manager) to develop and refine incentives, programs, and trainings that will help attract new businesses, and retain existing ones. Help create a fresh marketing and brand for Foster City to showcase our amenities, safety, and inclusive environment.
- Educator and Workforce Housing. Housing remains the underlying issue of our time, especially in the Bay Area. I will work with City Staff, Housing Partners, School Districts, and Faith-Based Organizations to find land we can build or redevelop on that can help educators, firefighters, police officers, city staff, etc. live where they work. This will all also help bring our community closer together, make it safer, and expand our tax base.
My favorite singer is Nina Simone. Her music spoke truth to power - she is someone who showcased her strength and vulnerability, and I live by being non-binary and understanding that we all contain multitudes.
- Help secure key hires in this challenging hiring environment.
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See also
2024 Elections
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