Amal Smith | My campaign was not self-funded

The Piedmont Post November 14 cover story on campaign finances reported that my campaign “self-funded roughly $6,500.” That is incorrect and would be a surprise to my campaign’s fundraising volunteers and to the dozens of campaign donors. [MORE]

My First Job | Engineering intern on the Great Highway

I was an interning Engineer on the Great Highway in San Francisco when I was eighteen years old. I had just completed my first year of Civil Engineering at U.C. Berkeley, and donning boots and a hard hat was a welcome change to my word processing job that required typing 80 words a minute.