Patricia has lived in San Francisco for 45 years, and is a tenant for 33 years of a recently acquired SFCLT property: 1130 Filbert, a rent-controlled building housing seniors and BIPOC residents.  Patricia and co-tenants suddenly faced displacement during the pandemic when the owner landlord put the building on the market. Her long, activist experience with anti-displacement causes informed and energized her to organize her co-tenants, and to engage community and political organizations to advocate for the acquisition of the building by SFCLT.  This success saved 4 households from certain displacement.

Patricia is a bilingual Latina, a single mother and grandmother whose descendants are proud graduates and students of SF public schools . She is a small business owner with an office in North Beach. As a licensed private investigator, she specializes in both criminal and civil law, restorative justice, and cases in which convicted persons seek remedy through Innocence Commissions and through the 2020 Racial Justice Act of California.