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Dwayne Shipp, 51, is a lifelong Santa Ana resident who has lived in the city since 1975. He attended Lincoln Elementary, Carr Intermediate and Valley High School and has worked as a caregiver in Santa Ana for more than 10 years. Shipp is the youngest of 10 children of Helen
Hector Bustos, 27, is a Santa Ana native who was born and raised in the city. He was raised alongside two brothers by a single immigrant mother from Jalisco, Mexico, in a working-class household that relied on programs including CalFresh and after-school services. The grandson of hotel workers,
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Benjamin Vazquez, 55, is a Santa Ana educator and Ward 2 Councilmember who was first elected to the Santa Ana City Council in 2022. Vazquez grew up in Santa Ana in a union household with six children. His family did not have much money for sports and other activities, so
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Sandra De Anda, 33, is a lifelong Santa Ana resident, born and raised in the city. She is the eldest of seven siblings and grew up in a working-class immigrant family with parents from Sinaloa, Mexico. De Anda spent much of her childhood in Section 8 housing in Santa
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Daniel Shimell, 40, is an attorney who has lived in Santa Ana since 2020. Originally from El Cajon, Shimell grew up as an only child with a father who worked in sales and technical writing and a mother who was a registered nurse before leaving the workforce after he was
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Alejandra Rodriguez, 40, is a lifelong Santa Ana resident, born and raised in the city. She grew up in a family of four with hardworking parents and one sibling, and credits her mother’s involvement in her education—from chaperoning field trips to attending school events—with influencing her own
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Isuri S. Ramos, 33, is a lifelong Santa Ana resident, born and raised in the city. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Ramos grew up on Minnie Street in a family that relied on public transportation and city services and, at one point, lost its home. Ramos says Santa Ana’s