Demonstrators march in front of Getty House, the Los Angeles mayor’s official residence. She said she was on the same side of many social justice issues as Garcetti and Wakeland. AdvertisementThen-L.A. Councilman Eric Garcetti and his wife, Amy Wakeland, vote in the 2013 mayoral runoff in Silver Lake. The mayor’s office boasts that 40% of programmers in the city’s Information Technology Agency are now women, compared with 21% nationally in similar jobs. While Garcetti became the headliner, winning a Los Angeles City Council seat, then the council presidency and, finally in 2013, the mayor’s office, Wakeland operated mostly in the background.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 07, 2021 12:56 UTC