Camille Zapata

Camille Zapata is a queer Puerto Rican Mexican-American artist, youth organizer and experienced campaign manager from Stockton, CA. Her work to build a more equitable and thriving future for womxn, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community is personal and is at the center of her professional career. She currently serves as Program Manager for Civic Engagement and Political Empowerment in the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. Prior to that, she was the first Latina Chief of Staff to San Joaquin County Supervisor Kathy Miller, third woman elected to serve on the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. She also previously served as the campaign manager for Dr. Susan Talamantes Eggman, the first LGBTQ+ Latinx woman elected to the CA Senate. She has successfully moved the needle on intersectional gender equity work in California's Central Valley by bringing people together and lifting people up through creating diverse justice-driven coalitions, art-focused communications tools, and building strategic civic engagement programs rooted with values of equity, mentorship and the empowerment of women. She looks forward to supporting womxn candidates who center social, racial, environmental, and economic justice in the fight for a more equitable future. She resides in her hometown of Stockton.