Eunisses Hernandez – LA City Council District 1

Eunisses Hernandez is a community organizer, lifelong Highland Park resident, daughter of Mexican immigrants, and Councilmember for Los Angeles City Council District 1. Prior to elected office, she co-founded La Defensx, an organization dedicated to shifting Los Angeles County’s reliance on criminalization and incarceration towards systems of care, and her leadership was instrumental in policy victories like Measure J, which reallocate resources into community-based services and alternatives to incarceration.