NELSON TAM
#2 on Ballot - Incumbent - Executive Board Eligible

Nelson Tam is a long-time AD-18 resident of forty years who has worked tirelessly on the election of changemaker Progressive reform candidates, campaigns, and the implementation of transformative social justice policies locally and nationally in the redress of income and wealth inequalities. With the aftermath of the 2024 elections, Tam recognizes the work ahead - that this is a turning point for an emergent and deep scope Democratic Party realignment to fulfill material improvements for our district, for our state residents -- and the elevation of community-led initiatives in national policy reach.

He is proud of leading the 2025 Unifying Four Slate of fellow relentless capacity builders dedicated to salient voter engagement, legislative support, policy activism, and determined coalition organizing to the state party. Being a delegate is far from merely casting endorsement votes -- it's about driving cavalier change with preventative foresight. In a new era of Trump resistance, "block and build" organizing strategies, programmatic political alliances transcendent of normal partisan systems -- it is imperative members of the state party build year-round organizing infrastructure enhancing our Progressive policy domain, but also to boost voter plurality in crossover issue outreach activating more supporters to the state party -- particularly to the new category of the ex-urban electorate.

As a first generation AAPI immigrant raised in Oakland whose family labored through the hardships of working in the Bay Area garment manufacturing industry in the 1980's, '90's, and '00's, Tam has long experienced and has ever seen the exhaustive multi-generational effects of harmful structural inequalities on so many of our district residents. Providing voice for those marginalized in our electoral system and advancing AD 18 district needs requires continued action this decade for affordable housing, worker's rights, preventing austerity, expansion of elder/disabled long term-care, climate change amelioration, infrastructure investment, full fledged economic development to address public revenue losses -- fiscal accountability.

In his first term as an ADEM delegate, Tam has worked on building party capacity as a communications manager on the Executive Board of the CADem Children's Caucus launching new Caucus programming helping to double caucus memberships. He has served with the California Nurses Association in multi-cycle organizing of single payer Medicare For All -- lobbying for CalCare -- and platforming a new Patient Bill of Rights.

粵雙語 - Cantonese Bilingual