Jim Gonzalez is a public policy consultant and political strategist for elected and appointed policymakers, private sector leaders, international companies, and nonprofit organizations,

He has managed California statewide citizen ballot initiatives on drug reform (Propositions 215 and 36), expanding mental health services (Proposition 63), renewable energy (Proposition7), and was a senior adviser on health insurance reform (Proposition 45) and the death penalty repeal (Proposition 62).

Previously, Jim Gonzalez was a Special Assistant to San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Mayor Feinstein appointed Jim to a vacancy on the SF Board of Supervisors. Two years later Jim was elected citywide as a member of the Board.

Supervisor Gonzalez (retired) served as Chairman of the Finance Committee. as a board member of the San Francisco Health Services System, the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Association of Bay Area Governments. In 1994, President Clinton offered him the position of Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Jim was the first elected official in the nation to author a City of Sanctuary ordinance. Since then, two hundred cities in the United States have passed sanctuary legislation to protect the human rights of undocumented immigrants. Also his legislation granted prime City land to build the Mexican Museum of San Francisco.

His firm has expertise in winning and expanding Democratic majorities in Congress and state legislatures. For several election cycles, Jim led the team for the New House PAC that conducted nationally recognized training programs for many successful congressional candidates.

His political consulting firm has mobilized, with teams of community organizers, Latino voters in the states of California, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

Jim Gonzalez past Chair and founding member of Cien Amigos-Working for California and Mexico. He is a recipient of the Mexican Government’s highest honor, The Ohtli Award, (Trailblazer Award) bestowed for outstanding community service in behalf of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Latinos living in the USA .

Jim holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco, a Bachelors Degree in Government from Saint Mary’s College of California, and was a Kellogg Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.