Ying Min Li
Candidate for City Council Member, Fremont, District 4 · Small Business Owner
Ying-Min Li immigrated to Silicon Valley in the 1980s as the first in her family and community to attend college, and spent more than two decades in semiconductors, founding a company and joining startups that reached public listings. She later moved into housing and community-focused investment and development. In 2014 she established a family education foundation that has supported about 300 students from low-income families, and in 2018 she joined the Shin Shin Educational Foundation, becoming Vice Chair and CFO in 2024. In Fremont she has served on Citizens for Better Community since 2018, as Vice President since 2024, and on the Fremont Rotary Club and Historical Architectural Review Board.
Positions in brief
Li's platform, framed around the acronym FREMONT, emphasizes family, residents' voices, schools, multicultural communities, opportunity, neighborhood safety, and traffic efficiency.
Li's campaign priorities include supporting families, amplifying residents' voices, excellent schools, multicultural communities, opportunity for all, neighborhood safety, and traffic efficiency. She says her own life shows the power of education to change lives.
On the issues
- Public Safety & Policing
Supports neighborhood safety as part of her platform.
Source → - Infrastructure & Transportation
Supports improving traffic efficiency.
Source → - Economy & Jobs
Supports creating opportunity for all residents.
Source → - Education & Schools
Supports excellent schools as part of her platform.
“Education changed my life, and I deeply believe in its power to change others' lives as well.”
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