"I don't want to come into this saying 'I know the answer,'" Tina Valentin Aguirre, 52, who identifies as a genderqueer Latinx person, said in a phone interview. "I need to learn so much in the first few months.
I need to learn the concerns of small business owners, nonprofits, and other community stakeholders, as well as community groups who don't have a space."But that doesn't mean Aguirre isn't clued into the changes the area has seen since they first moved in over 30 years ago."I've lived in my flat since 1987," Aguirre said. "I've been a renter since then in the 94114 ZIP code and I've seen it change drastically.