IFPTE VP Frances Hsieh Represents IFPTE for AFL-CIO's AAPI Heritage Month

ABOUT FRANCES

Frances Hsieh is the Vice President for Legislative & Political Action for IFPTE Local 21, overseeing and coordinating the political and legislative advocacy work in San Francisco, the East Bay, and South Bay on statewide issues and candidates.

Frances has over 20 years of experience in advocacy, politics, and government affairs. She has spent the past decade leveraging this experience and relationships in politics, community, and labor to grow these movements around shared values in order to change public policy.

As an active APALA member, Frances helped start Local 21’s API Caucus and currently serves as its co-chair, promoting issues and advocating for and connecting the concerns between AAPIs within Local 21, the labor movement, and in the broader community.

Frances also served as the SF APALA delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council, raising the profile of SF APALA in the local labor community and moving forward resolutions to support AAPI labor organizing efforts and decry attacks on Phillipine workers and organizers.

In addition, Frances is an active member of local community organizations, including the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, supporting more progressive candidates and policies to benefit the most marginalized communities in San Francisco and of Comrades, Compas, Kasamas, and Tong Pao of D11, organizing working class families and communities of color in San Francisco’s southernmost neighborhoods.

She is currently a Legislative Aide for Connie Chan, Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and oversees the office’s work on government accountability, labor issues, immigration policies, public safety, and staffs the Supervisor on the Government Audits Committee and Health Services Board.

A native San Franciscan, Frances and her wife, Maritza, have raised their two children in the Excelsior District.