Shamann Walton
speaker
1,476 appearances
23 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 4d ago
Shamann Walton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.
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Thank you.
As one of the earliest staff members of PODER, People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights,
She helped to lead a signature campaign to reclaim a toxic brownfield on Folsom and 23rd Streets and transform it into a beautiful, multi-generational park and gathering space to serve the neighborhood's diverse, working-class residents.
Today, park users may not know about all the people who have fought for over eight years to turn the empty lot into a park.
They may not know about the city's negotiations with the property owner or the soil tests or many, many community meetings where youth, immigrant families, and neighbors helped design the park.
They are grateful for the opportunity to play in a safe space in their own neighborhood.
The school children at Cesar Chavez Elementary School left their mark by naming this new park, Paquinino Unidos, or Children Uniting Park.
Through it all, Jerry Amanza was there making it all happen.
Jerry also poured her heart into the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, or SNCHE, serving as the delegate and joining force with other environmental justice communities from California to northern Mexico to lift up community solutions to combat corporate and state-sponsored environmental racism.
During that time, she taught bilingual education and everything from math to geography to science, using hands-on techniques to engage students to build sharp, inquiring mindset with culturally based practices and a lot of love.
Together with other elected officers, Jerry has worked hard to build an organization whose heart lies with building strong schools for students with all the necessary resources and supporting kids and their family in the ways that are the most needed.
In her role as a UESF treasurer, she has supported unhoused SFUSD families who organized in the Faith in Action Bay Area to gain resources for families so that no child sleeps on the street.
and help start a legal defense fund for SFUSD students and family who are seeking opportunities for a better life for their children.
It is my greatest pleasure and my honor to honor Jerry today.
Thank you for all that you do to help create San Francisco, a San Francisco where the lights of our youth and our diverse working class family shine blind.
Thank you, Jerry.
Present.
Chair Walton.
Thank you so much.
I would like to make a motion to amend this item and to correct the title stating commonly known as the Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure, striking that on lines 4 and 5.
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