Meet Your 2025-26 CA DSA State Committee!
Our seven-member California DSA State Committee, elected last month by State Council delegates, is responsible for organizing and steering the statewide organization between Council meetings. We’re a diverse set of organizers from up and down California, and we’re excited to be shepherding California DSA for the next year! Amid Trump’s fascist attacks on immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, and the working class writ large, we're committed to steering an organization that is an active part in the struggle against his administration and to building an alternative vision for California.
Introducing our State Committee members:
Michael L (he/him)
Michael has been participating in EBDSA since 2017 in Medicare for All, labor solidarity and electoral organizing. He is active in the chapter’s priority campaign, ‘Fighting Oligarchy: Support Federal Workers’. He worked for the California Nurses Association//NNU for 25 years and has been a member of DSA since 1982.
William P (he/him)
William has been in DSA since 2021 and has canvassed in every election cycle since 2018. While at college, he co-founded a YDSA chapter that participated in a push to get the college to divest from Israel. He is currently a member of DSA-LA.
Jules Y (they/them)
Jules has been a member of DSA-LA for three years. They have been a labor and community organizer since organizing with dining hall workers to win a union at their university in 2018. This is Jules’s second term as Secretary on the State Committee.
Nickan F (she/her)
Nickan has been a DSA member for seven years and has served on the State Committee since 2023. She is most active in electoral organizing, having led the electoral committees of both East Bay DSA and CA DSA, and has worked on and volunteered for numerous campaigns.
Mark G (they/he)
Mark has been a member of DSA-LA for eight years, and serves as its Recording Secretary and co-chair of its campaign for stronger rent control.
Bonnie L (she/her)
Bonnie has been an East Bay DSA member since 2017. She was a co-founder of the chapter Climate & Environmental Justice Caucus and currently serves as Climate Action Committee and Boycott Chevron Campaign co-chair. She is a member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 1000.
Paul Z (he/him)
Paul is currently serving as the organization's Communications Director and is a member of DSA Los Angeles, where he serves as one of the Eastside Branch Coordinators. Since joining DSA in 2020, Paul has been active in many electoral campaigns and specializes in design and visual communications at the local, state, and national levels.
