Ellen Kamei
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1,215 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 24 Feb
Ellen Kamei’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Being a community for all means creating a true sense of belonging, ensuring safety.
dignity and opportunity at every stage of life.
It means confronting real challenges like the cost of housing, access to childcare, mental health support, and the pressures facing our working families.
These issues are personal to me.
Being multiracial and multilingual has shaped how I see this community and why inclusion, equity, and belonging are not abstract values to me, but lived experiences.
Over the past year in particular, I've reflected about how my paternal grandparents met here working in the fields.
They faced circumstances, unfortunately, not dissimil dissimilar to current times.
Yet there was something about the city of Mountain View that led them to return here after Heart Mountain.
They felt that the city was a place where, unlike other communities, they could belong.
They were wanted.
And it is that sense of belonging that brought me back here after graduate school to live with my grandfather, the reason I chose to stay, and it's led to this incredible opportunity to serve the city that shaped me.
Supporting families, especially young families, has been a key part of that work, and I'm proud of how Mountain View remains committed to helping create and sustain child care options for both residents and city employees.
In this year's budget, we included a $100,000 subsidy to help offset costs at learning links so that our city site can continue offering affordable care to our Mountain View.
families and our city staff.
We are also one of the only cities in the region to provide eight weeks of paid family leave for city employees welcoming a child through birth, adoption, or fostering.
This is also available to our council, our boards, and our commissions.
I'm grateful to have championed this and to have been able to utilize it twice for the birth of my children.
Now this pilot program is a permanent commitment and reflected in our recommended budget at one million in our parental leave reserve.
We're also looking ahead to the development of a new child care center at the Evelyn Affordable Housing Project on our city-owned land in partnership with Affirmed Housing.
This is what it means to be a community for all, including our youngest residents.
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