The 2026 Festival of Progressive Abundance
Sara Hernandez
Candidate for CA Senate
Sara Hernandez has been a proud resident of California's 26th Senate District for over 20 years. Sara began her career as an LAUSD middle school teacher. As a teacher, she founded the non-profit Helping Young People Excel (HYPE), which identifies low-income students in middle school and provides them with life-changing educational opportunities and resources to succeed in college and beyond. In 2015, HYPE merged with Young Eisner Scholars, an organization that continues to serve students across Los Angeles as well as in New York, Chicago and Appalachia.
After earning a law degree, Sara worked in City Hall where she led Downtown revitalization efforts through a mix of strategic economic development policies, innovative policy initiatives and investments in housing, homelessness, transportation, infrastructure and green space.