Ground Game LA Official Endorsements

Ysabel Jurado

City Council District 14

As a lifelong Angeleno community lawyer, Ysabel Jurado has spent her career fighting to keep tenants in their homes, small businesses in their neighborhoods, and build community land trusts! Ysabel is a tenants rights attorney, affordable housing activist, and candidate to become the next Councilmember for District 14. Born and raised in Highland Park, she attended Pasadena City College and put herself through college at UCLA, where she completed her bachelor’s degree. After graduating, she went on to UCLA School of Law, where she graduated with a Juris Doctorate with specializations in Critical Race Studies and the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She did it all while raising her daughter, Stella.

Greg Akili

State Assembly District 57

A veteran organizer for labor and for racial justice born in the segregated South, Akili grew up in a community with high unemployment, underfunded schools, and crime. As a frustrated teenager, Akili began getting into trouble, which resulted in a brief stint in jail at the age of 19. Determined to turn his life around and inspired by a teacher who saw great potential in him, a young Greg Terry became involved in the Civil Rights and social justice movement. His last name was changed to Akili (Swahili for intelligent), and from that point, he has committed his life to fighting for a fair and just society. Greg Akili (preferred to be called Akili) has over 50 years of experience as a laborer, community organizer, and political leader. He is among the few people of color to co-found a labor union – the United Domestic Workers (AFSCME 3090). Akili has dedicated his life to labor, social and racial justice.

Eunisses Hernandez

LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL DISTrict 1

Update: ELECTION WINNER

We are beyond excited to announce our endorsement of Eunisses Hernandez. Eunisses is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, a survivor, and a lifelong resident of North East LA in Los Angeles Council District 1. As a policy advocate, campaign strategist, and community organizer, she’s been a leader in helping to develop and implement sentencing reforms and sentence enhancement abolition policies. Her efforts have led to the repeal and reform of some of the most devastating tough on crime policies in California. Her campaign is centered around equity, justice, and compassion in city hall so let's get her into office! Donate and volunteer for her campaign here.

HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ

LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL DISTrict 13

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Hugo Soto-Martinez is a labor organizer for UNITE HERE! Local 11 who grew up in Los Angeles and has spent the past 15 years helping workers build collective power to win higher wages, better working conditions, and dignity in their places of work. A former hotel worker and the son of immigrants, Hugo is running to combat the climate crisis, move unhoused people into permanent housing, and to shift funding from armed policing to unarmed crisis response, social services, and jobs. Donate and volunteer for his campaign!

Kenneth Mejia

Los angeles city controller

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Kenneth Mejia is the only Certified Public Accountant in the race. Kenneth’s work with the LA Tenants Union and as a community organizer informs his principles and commitment to advocate for the City’s budget reflecting Angelenos’ priorities. Mejia’s commitment to transparent and accessible city finances has already helped educate and inform communities to better advocate for themselves. The sky’s the limit for the ways he would be able to continue this work in office. Here’s where to donate and volunteer to the campaign.

Holly Hancock

LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERIOR JUDICIAL OFFICE 70

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Holly Hancock is one of the Defenders of Justice: four women running for Superior County Judge seats, running on a platform of respect, experience and compassion. For more than 15 years, Holly has served in the Public Defender’s Office, currently as a Deputy-In-Charge of the Criminal Record Clearing Unit. She has seen the effects that a myopic judiciary has had on Los Angeles, and Ground Game knows Holly will instead serve with fairness, dignity, and integrity as her leading philosophies. Please consider donating to Holly or volunteering for The Defenders of Justice. 

Tina McKinnor

State Assembly District 62

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Tina McKinnor, a longtime activist and native Angeleno, supports a single-payer healthcare system, stronger tenant and eviction protections, and decreasing the number of people who are incarcerated, while opposing neighborhood oil drilling and efforts to criminalize homelessness. Donate today!

Dan Brotman

GLENDale city council

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Dan Brotman ran for City Council to organize a push for clean energy alternatives because of Glendale's insistence on replacing an old gas plant with even more fossil fuels. While in office, he worked with the Coalition for Anti-Racist Glendale to become the first California city to acknowledge, apologize, and condemn its racist history. It came with commitments to attack racist structures through policing, housing, and hiring. Learn more about his campaign!

Nikki Pérez

Burbank City Council

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Nikki Pérez is a social worker born and raised in Burbank who currently manages a pilot program to assist unhoused youth in LASUD. She led the effort to establish a Burbank Green New Deal, and if elected would work with Burbank Water and Power to commit to being at 100% clean electricity by 2035. She is passionate about taking a proactive approach to addressing homelessness in Burbank, and wants to invest in programs that enrich the community. Donate and volunteer to her campaign today!

Freddy Puza

CULVER CITY City Council

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Freddy Puza is running for City Council to advance “policies rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, rather than holding on to policies that only benefit a few.” He is a Southern California native and 11-year resident of Culver City who ran a strong campaign for a Council seat in 2020. Puza would keep Culver City moving in the right direction. Donate and volunteer to his campaign today!

HOLLY MITCHELL

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS (Dist. 2)

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Holly Mitchell is a state Senator and Chair of the Budget Committee who has led progressive reforms and guided funding to meet the real needs of local communities. She is running to make Los Angeles County invest in community, provide vital services and protect future generations.

KONSTANTINE ANTHONY

burbank city council

Update: ELECTION WINNER

Konstantine Anthony is an organizer and formerly unhoused individual seeking to bring affordable housing, shelter & outreach services, and a Green New Deal to the City of Burbank.