Ambassadors Get Local with San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo

In Part 2 with Mayor Sam Liccardo of San Jose, Ambassadors pose questions about leadership, immigration, police relations and where to party in San Jose!

Episode Notes:

Sponsor: On this segment of #Ask Rickey, we bring you Part 2 of our end of year planning conversation. Ask Rickey! is brought to you by Rickey Bowen, CRPC, CEP, financial planner with Gateway Financial Advisors, Inc.

Join the Circle: As a member of The Ambassadors Circle, you are joining like-minded individuals on a mission to inspire and equip all of us to #DoMoreGood. Click here to learn more!

Time For Some Action:
It’s the time of year when we’re asked to clean out our closets to help those in need keep warm - but we want to do one better, since socks and underwear are two of the items in highest demand for folks in need. Stop by Target, Costco, or wherever you go to pick up bulk packages of socks and underwear in both children and adult sizes for your local clothing drive!
Some orgs to get you started:

Sacred Heart Community Center (San Jose)
Bay Area Women and Children’s Center  (Oakland)
Mission for the Homeless (Oakland)
St. Anthony’s (San Francisco)

Guest Profiles

Mayor Sam Liccardo, San Jose Mayor
Mayor Sam Liccardo took office in January 2015, and at the age of 44, became one of the youngest mayors in San Jose’s modern history. In Sam’s prior public service, he prosecuted a range of felony cases as a federal and local criminal prosecutor. In 2006, voters elected Sam to the first of his two terms on the City Council, where he led efforts to revitalize its downtown, preserve San José’s hillsides and open space, boost funding for affordable housing and open a world-class soccer stadium for the San José Earthquakes. Sam serves on a number of boards of directors and holds senior fellowships for the American Leadership Forum and the Aspen Institute. Sam graduated from San José’s Bellarmine College Prep and Georgetown University, prior to receiving a law degree from Harvard Law School and a master’s degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Sam and his wife, Jessica, live in the Northside neighborhood, within blocks of Jessica’s childhood home,where Sam’s grandparents operated a neighborhood grocery store. Sam descended from the first Mexican settlers in the Bay Area, as well as from Sicilian and Irish immigrants. Website | Twitter | Facebook

Suzy Loftus, Curator & Ambassador, Asst. Chief Legal Counsel, San Francisco Sheriff's Office
Suzy Loftus is a native San Franciscan with a highly respected career. As the former President of the San Francisco Police Commission, she led the effort to equip all patrol officers with body worn cameras, reformed the use force policy and dramatically increased discipline for serious police misconduct. In addition, she prioritized improving the Department’s response to violence against women and children, expanded the use of technology to solve crime and worked to make our streets safe for all who use them – pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists. Suzy currently serves Asst. Chief Legal Counsel for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. Prior to that she was General Counsel for the California Department of Justice, where she worked on select litigation – both affirmative and defense – on areas of significance to the Department. Suzy received the James Irvine Leadership Award for California in 2014 for her work in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood to build and found the Center for Youth Wellness, an innovative non-profit working to heal children suffering from the impacts of violence and chronic adversity. Suzy has also served as a San Francisco prosecutor where she prosecuted domestic violence, elder abuse and firearms cases. Suzy is a native San Franciscan, and along with Tom Loftus and her mother Maureen Roche, is raising 3 daughters in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood. LinkedIn | Twitter

Tomás Jiménez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University; Scholar of Immigration
In addition to teaching at Stanford, Tomás is the Director of the undergraduate program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Director of graduate studies in sociology. His research and writing focus on immigration, assimilation, social mobility, and ethnic and racial identity.He has written two books on this topic: The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Changing American Life (University of California Press, 2017), and Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity (University of California Press, 2010) Professor Jiménez has also published his research in leading scholarly outlets, such as Science, the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Science Quarterly, DuBois Review, and the Annual Review of Sociology. He holds a PhD and AM in sociology from Harvard University, and a BS in sociology from Santa Clara University. Website 

Check out books Tomas has authored here:
The Other Side of Assimilation
How Immigrants Are Changing American Life 

Kijana Hilton, Bellarmine College Prep student
Kijana is currently a Junior at Bellarmine College Preparatory. As a student athlete Hilton is part of the varsity track team where he participates in hurdling, the long and triple jump. As a very social person Kijana enjoys building his network with quality people and is an Ambassador for equity and inclusion.

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What’s the 411:

• San Jose moves to shut down two churches selling marijuana
• San Jose police adopt more scrutiny on use of force. New policy will make use-of-force reviews routine after violent police encounters
• Google, San Jose could reach downtown property price deals for transit village by year’s end, mayor says
• San Jose flood: What’s been done since to improve warnings and protection

Top 5 Events:

• Trevor Noah at the Masonic, Nov. 24, San Francisco Tickets
• San Jose Christmas in the Park, Nov 27 at Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose
• GLIDE's Annual Holiday Jam: Love Overcomes, Nov. 29, at the Masonic in San Francisco. Tickets
• Women Speak and Lead! Ongoing Thursday Series, Nov. 30 at Covo in San Francisco
• Jack London Square Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony, Dec. 1 in Oakland 

Production Credits: 
Sound Design by Courtney Grace with Hosts Becca, LT, Christianne Harder and j-
Guest Relations by Andrea Rush with Production Assistance by Jen Huynh
Content Development by Sophia Cross
360BayArea Intro Music by Courtney Grace with vocals by ElleT

Featured Music + Clips:  
Courtney Grace - Ask Rickey Theme Music, What’s the 411 Theme Music                                       
Milton “Edit Beats”
Jeremiah “Some Rise Up”
Tomer Ben Ari “World Amnesty”
Phil David “We Chillin”
K. Solis. “Wavy” & “For U”
Garrett Bevins “Launch”
D.A.H. Trump “Sungazing”
Nomadic XXL “Party On”
Twin Musicom “Hip Hop Christmas”