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  McCarthy, Denise
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NameDenise McCarthy
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San Francisco, California , United States
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Oct 20, 2008 09:26pm
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InfoDenise has lived and worked in District 3 for more than 30 years. Her roots in the district are inter-generational: she lives on Russian Hill, her mother, Emily Benedetti, was born in North Beach to Italian immigrants; one of her daughters lives in North Beach; and two grandchildren attend public school here.

Native Californian

A native Californian, Denise grew up in Petaluma and rural Cotati in Sonoma County. Her father, Lucien “Red” Libarle, ran a second-generation industrial French linen service that had been founded in The City. Denise attended the Petaluma public schools and received a BA in sociology and economics from Mills College in Oakland, CA. After college she moved to Russian Hill in the City and got her first job working for an export-import company at Clay and Montgomery Streets.

In the mid-1970s, Denise was the director of Presidio Hill School in San Francisco, the oldest continually operating progressive school in California. She then worked at San Francisco City Hall in the early 1980s as an aide to Supervisor Quentin L. Kopp (who went on to be elected as an independent State Senator and appointed to San Mateo County Superior Court).

Led Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center

For 25 years Denise served as executive director of the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center in North Beach. During her tenure, Tel-Hi grew ten-fold to a $2 million dollar budget and a staff of 38. Today, Tel-Hi serves more than 600 District 3 children, youth, families, and seniors in Telegraph Hill, North Beach, Russian Hill, Chinatown, and Fisherman’s Wharf. There she involved Wharf merchants, other local businesses, and residents in the support of low-income families. She has a proven record of bringing together people of diverse ethnic, economic, and social backgrounds to improve our neighborhoods.

Rebuilding the Port

She served for seven years on the San Francisco Port Commission, two as president, during the late 1990s. She helped build broad community consensus for complex land-use projects such as the Ferry Building, AT&T Ballpark, Pier One, Pier 45 fishing processing facilities, and Hyde Street Fishing Facilities.

Dedicated to Improving Neighborhoods

She is currently the co-director of San Francisco Neighborhood Centers Together, a network of nine non-profit neighborhood centers from across the City. Denise also serves on the board of the San Francisco Giants Community Fund, Hunters Point Family (a non-profit serving African-American youth in the Bayview-Hunters Point), and was a founding board member of North Beach Citizens, a non-profit serving neighborhood homeless people on whose advisory board she still serves.

She is married to Tom McCarthy and lives on Russian Hill. She has two daughters, a son, and five grandchildren.


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