Despite all agreeing that Mayor Lightfoot was dealt an extremely challenging hand by fate, and faced additional difficulties due to her race, none of Lightfoot’s appointees were willing to endorse her during our interview. | ✍️ aarondgettinger
said. “It’s important because I have not been elected. So why am I endorsing anybody?”
Lee’s grandparents immigrated to the United States. Her mother owned a Chinatown beauty shop. Her father, Gene Lee, founded Chinatown’s She spent time asking about Asian American promotion rates and employment trends in the city bureaucracy, something she said Asian American city employees repeatedly thanked her for. She noted that the city’s top economic officials, Budget Director Susie Park, Comptroller Reshma Soni, and Chief Financial Officer Jennie Huang Bennett, are all Asian women but that only around 2 percent of Fire Department employees are Asian American.
She’s the daughter of immigrants from Guerrero state and Mexico City who met in Chicago while working at a restaurant. She remembers translating for her mother as a child when they went to City Hall on an errand for their auto repair business. They sent her to Chicago Public Schools through Taft High in Norwood Park. After not fitting in as a city kid with bright-red dyed hair at a small liberal arts college in rural Iowa, she transferred to DePaul.
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