Lessons From 6 Years of Local Advocacy

I have been doing safe-streets, transit, and housing advocacy in San Mateo for about 6 years. Along the way I’ve written a fair amount about it, here and elsewhere . Most of what I’ve actually learned came from showing up: to public meetings, to bike rides, to city survey groups. These lessons are written for the version of me who began this advocacy journey in 2020, and for anyone in that…