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The first Los Angeles City Council challenger to defeat an incumbent in nearly two decades, Raman won over a district with some of the most notoriously intractable NIMBY homeowners in the city.

As the primary English communicator of her Cambodian American family, Suely Saro became accustomed to speaking up at a young age.

A number of young, queer people of color are “winning seats in towns that have not necessarily seen that sort of representation before,” says KQED Silicon Valley reporter Adhiti Bandlamudi.