Zabrae Valentine

Leadership Council

Zabrae has been working to engage policy makers and the public in conversations to strengthen civic literacy and public policy for over 25 years, and currently provides strategic advising to initiatives in these areas. Since 2016, she has convened and facilitated the Economic Mobility Collaborative, an intentionally multi-partisan group of policy and political leaders who believe current barriers to economic security in CA present a critical threat to the state’s future both economically and socially, and who want to accelerate change that enables all Californians to be secure, feel valued, and thrive.

Why public education?

A great education for every single child is one of the most important investments we can make in our hyper interdependent society: It prepares each individual to access their best future (which every human deserves to do), and it seeds a secure, vibrant, resilient economy, and happy communities primed to meet and best challenges as they come—and they will come. It’s as important to each individual, and to every community, as the air we breathe. And that means it’s gotta be a public good.

Favorite Quotes:

You must do the things you think you cannot do –Eleanor Roosevelt; The truth will set you free – but first it will piss you off –Gloria Steinem