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Meet Mayor Martha Guerrero

Mom. Public Servant. Fighter for Working Families.

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Working Class Roots and a Commitment to Service

Martha Guerrero is a proud mom and public servant who has dedicated her career to lifting up others, building opportunities, and delivering results that help people get ahead as a licensed social worker, legislative advocate, and now as West Sacramento Mayor.

The youngest of six children, raised in a working-class Catholic home by two first-generation Mexican-Americans, Martha learned the values of hard work and helping others from her factory worker father and giving mother who sewed the kids’ clothes herself and never turned away someone asking for assistance.

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Building a Career to Improve Lives

Martha worked through high school at a supermarket pharmacy, helped by the benefits her union had negotiated for part-time employees, and assisted neighbors in need with her mom. Martha went on to work her way through community colleges, Cal State LA, and USC as a part-time researcher and in special education support at the county Department of Mental Health, where she saw firsthand how the underfunding of federal programs increased the incidence of children dropping out of school and getting worse.

After earning her Master’s Degree in Social Work from USC and while raising twin daughters as a single mom, Martha went to work full-time for the Department of Mental Health and worked her way up to a position in intergovernmental relations to advocate for changes in state legislation to support social services and education programs. Martha’s work supported the passage of Proposition 63, a state tax on the top 1% of earners to fund mental health programs for children and adults.

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Focused on Delivering Results

Martha has continued to advocate for stronger education, social services, and aging programs in her job while serving the West Sacramento community for over 20 years on the economic development, aging, and planning commissions. In 2018, Martha was elected to serve on the city council with the backing of unions and earned the trust of the community to serve as mayor in 2020.

As Mayor, Martha has brought people together to make West Sacramento safer and stronger by strengthening flood protection, supporting local small business growth and job opportunities, increasing transparency in government, and tackling homelessness by expanding access to services and transitional housing.

Now, Martha is running for Congress because local communities and people rely on what happens in Congress and the Trump administration and Republican leaders are putting the wealthy and big corporations ahead of us and starving critical support programs of resources. Martha will bring her working-class roots, strong Democratic values, and problem-solving approach to Congress to put people first for a change.

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Martha Guerrero with long dark hair, glasses, and a blue blazer smiling while sitting at a table in a cozy room with brick walls, decorative framed pictures, and a large window showing greenery outside.
Martha Guerrero reads a colorful children's book to a group of children sitting on the floor in a classroom. Martha Guerrero is smiling and holding the book open, showing illustrations of children and a parrot.