Jennifer Esteen, RN

VICE PRESIDENT OF ORGANIZING, SEIU 1021

Jennifer Esteen is a registered nurse, mother, and community leader serving as Vice President of the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees and a member of the Eden Municipal Advisory Council.

She has spent her career delivering care to the most vulnerable, first working as a psychiatric nurse in the San Francisco General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Room, where she saw firsthand the vicious cycle that people experience from diminished funding for mental health care. After Jennifer successfully led the fight to preserve funding for permanent housing for her clients, she was appointed to the role of Vice President of Organizing for SEIU 1021. Jennifer continues to work with San Francisco residents who have severe mental illness and need supportive housing and help managing activities of daily living.

She is a champion for working families, who advocates for policies that ensure our community has access to affordable housing, preventative healthcare, jobs that pay a living wage, and the justice we all deserve.