Rob Fuentes
Candidate for City Council Member, Fresno, District 1 · Educator/College Trustee
Rob Fuentes is a civil rights attorney in Fresno and president of the State Center Community College District Board of Trustees. He also teaches as a law instructor at San Joaquin College of Law. He previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting white-collar fraud, wildfire, and civil-rights cases, and in private practice represented workers in wage-and-hour, discrimination, and retaliation cases; he also volunteered with Kids in Need of Defense representing immigrant children and served on Fresno's Planning Commission. Born in Fresno to a farmworker family, he was the first in his family to graduate college. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Positions in brief
Fuentes is campaigning on lowering the cost of living, expanding housing and job access regardless of zip code, and building safer neighborhoods through community partnerships.
Fuentes says quality jobs, housing, and education should not depend on a family's zip code or income, and has made lowering the cost of living, including transportation and childcare costs, a central theme. He supports economic development throughout the city and building safer neighborhoods through community partnership rather than policing alone.
On the issues
Says quality jobs and housing should not depend on a resident's zip code.
“quality jobs and housing should not depend on zip code”
Source →Prioritizes lowering the cost of living, including transportation and childcare costs.
“lower the cost of living”
Source →Supports building safer neighborhoods through community partnerships.
“build safer neighborhoods”
Source →Supports spurring community and economic development citywide.
“spur community and economic development throughout our City”
Source →Says quality education should not depend on a family's income.
“quality education should not depend on income”
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