Christopher Cabaldon
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| Mayor of West Sacramento, California | |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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| Born | November 12, 1965 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | West Sacramento, California |
| Website | cabaldon.org |
Christopher L. Cabaldon (born November 12, 1965) is a Filipino-American politician from California who serves as mayor of West Sacramento. He is the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. He also represents the State of California on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education as an appointee of California Governor Jerry Brown. He is a member of the Democratic Party and Vice President of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors. He is openly gay.
Enrolling as a founding pupil at the Center for Enriched Studies, the first magnet school in Los Angeles and the centerpiece of the district's voluntary integration program instituted following a court finding of racial segregation, Christopher Cabaldon first became involved in politics as a seventh-grader, speaking at conferences and in media interviews on the subject of desegregation. He became student body president at the school.
Cabaldon earned his BS in Environmental Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was student body vice president. He earned a Masters in Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Sacramento in its founding class, where he later taught as an adjunct faculty member, and later received the institution's "Distinguished Alumni Service" award.
Cabaldon served as President/CEO of EdVoice, a Sacramento-based education non-profit advocacy group, after a decade with the California State Assembly as Chief Consultant and Staff Director at the age of 24 to the Higher Education Committee and then Chief of Staff to the chair of Appropriations Committee. He began his professional career as Legislative Director of the University of California Students Association.
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