Prior election to Hayward City Council in 2014, Sara Lamnin worked in healthcare and non-profit programs addressing issues related to senior services, intergenerational programming, Kinship Care, and Homelessness. She recently completed her fifth year on the League of CA Cities Governance ...
Read morePrior election to Hayward City Council in 2014, Sara Lamnin worked in healthcare and non-profit programs addressing issues related to senior services, intergenerational programming, Kinship Care, and Homelessness. She recently completed her fifth year on the League of CA Cities Governance Transparency and Labor Relations Policy Committee (Chair 2016-18). She represents the City on regional transportation and environmental boards and is a member of the City’s Budget and Finance Committee, Local Agencies Committee, and is Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Task Force. She is an active member of the League of Women Voters, American Association of University Women, and others. She is also president-elect of the Hayward Rotary club. She was re-elected in 2018 and in her 5 years in office, she has mentored more than a dozen interns, over half of whom were women, ages 15 to 50.
In her earlier career, Sara served as president of the Bay Area Therapeutic Recreation Association and presented at state and international conferences. She built the Alameda County Tools for School Collaborative, providing 11,000 backpacks full of school supplies to local students. She also developed peer leadership jobs for kin caregivers and youth and for people who were homeless.
Sara graduated Magna Cum Laude from San Francisco State in 1996. In 2006, she graduated with honors from CSU in Hayward with a MA in Health Care Administration. She continued her education through Leadership Hayward, Emerge California, and the University of Pittsburgh and recently completed the League of Cities’ Torch Program earning the Leadership in Action award.