Melissa Ramoso

Candidate for City Council (At-Large), Artesia · Mayor Pro Tem

Melissa Ramoso is District Director for California Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, where she began as an intern in 2003, and previously spent nearly a decade as Senior Adviser to U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu focusing on veterans, families and immigrant communities. She was elected to the Artesia City Council in 2018 as the city's first Filipina and Asian American woman member, was selected mayor by her peers in 2021, and is now Mayor Pro Tem. She is Vice President of the Greater Los Angeles Vector Control District Board of Trustees, and a UC Irvine political science graduate.

City bio credits her with advancing anti-hate resolutions, pandemic protection efforts, and Artesia's first catalytic converter theft prevention ordinance.

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