Carolyn Wysinger
Candidate for City Council (At-Large), El Cerrito · City Councilmember/Educator
Carolyn Wysinger is a community advocate, educator, and author who was elected to the El Cerrito City Council in 2022. Her colleagues selected her to serve as mayor for 2025, reported to be a first for a Black lesbian mayor in California. During her first term she says she worked to increase transparency in local government and to carry El Cerrito's voice across the region and the state.
Positions in brief
Is focused on public safety, infrastructure, economic development, and quality of life, building on work she says increased transparency in local government during her first term.
Wysinger has framed her campaign priorities around continuing progress on public safety, infrastructure, economic development, and quality of life. She points to her first term's focus on increasing transparency in local government and raising El Cerrito's profile regionally and statewide as the foundation for that work.
On the issues
Lists public safety among her top priorities.
Source →Lists infrastructure investment among her top priorities.
Source →Lists economic development among her top priorities.
Source →- Quality of life
Lists overall quality of life in El Cerrito among her top priorities.
Source → Says she worked during her first term to increase transparency in local government and to raise the city's profile regionally and statewide.
“worked to increase transparency in local government and to carry El Cerrito's voice across the region and the state”
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