Bevan Dufty Email & Phone Number

Bevan represents District 9 on the BART Board of Directors that includes neighborhoods in City Supervisoiral Districts 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11 and Powell Street, Civic Center, 16th Street, 24th Street, Glen Park and part of the Balboa Park BART Stations.Bevan's early public service career focused on transit as he worked in Congress as Chief Legislative Assistant for Rep. Julian Dixon (D-Los Angeles) on the authorization and appropriations legislation that led to the LA Metro system and the return of Rail Transit to Los Angeles. Bevan Dufty recently completed more than 21 years of public service to the City and County of San Francisco, including Director of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement), Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 8 and Mayor Willie Brown's Director of Neighborhood Services.Dufty was twice elected to represent District Eight on the Board of Supervisors beginning in 2002. The same seat was once held by Harvey Milk. Dufty has worked hard to address homelessness, strongly supporting Care Not Cash and Mayor Newsom’s Housing First approach that dramatically expanded supportive housing. He helped to establish the Castro Young Adult Housing Collaborative for 22 homeless youth, funding neighborhood-based homeless outreach/case management teams, establishing case managers at the Main Library, and secured Board approval for the highly successful Community Justice Center. He has been focused on prevention for our transitional youth, chronically homeless and restructuring the courts approach to habitual offenders. Dufty holds a degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he served as Senior Legislative Assistant for Education to U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York and served as Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Julian Dixon of Los Angeles. Dufty has also served as Legislative Aide to former Supervisor Susan Leal.

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