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| Name | Erin Mendenhall |
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Salt Lake City, Utah , United States |
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| Info | Erin entered public service more than 15 years ago when she learned that the air quality in Salt Lake City was so bad that it could take two years off the life of her newborn son. Instead of walking away, Erin decided to get to work.
She joined Utah Moms for Clean Air and started as an activist, soon recognizing the potential in moving from activism to having a seat at the table where decisions were made. Erin was determined to bring scientific understanding to air-quality discussions in the state legislature, our schools, and our community.
Erin co-founded a new non-profit organization, Breathe Utah, in 2010 and shifted from advocate to leader. Breathe Utah has created long-term change by teaching tens of thousands of Utah students about the importance of air quality, and how they can play an active role in improving it. After being appointed to the state’s Air Quality Board in 2014, Erin was elected and re-elected as its chair.
Mayor Mendenhall came to office with the kind of multi-faceted long-term strategy you’d expect from an air-quality advocate, and is delivering the kind of bold progress we expected in electing a clean-air advocate as mayor.
Mayor Mendenhall created the wildly successful Free Fare February program with UTA to help more drivers take public transit and leave their cars at home;
Because of Mayor Mendenhall, Salt Lake City is finally on track to receive clean electricity citywide by 2030;
She is also building a solar farm in Tooele County to power city government buildings;
Mayor Mendenhall is fighting back against our poor air quality by planting thousands of oxygen-producing, pollution-removing trees on the West side;
She quadrupled the number of residents to swap their polluting gas-powered lawn mowers for clean electric mowers; and
The Mendenhall Administration has expanded the city’s public transit options to help more residents get around the city without polluting automobiles.
Air quality is the lens through which Erin views every issue. No one will work harder in City Hall to clean our air, and no one is better qualified to deliver actual results for our city.
Erin earned results on the City Council.
Erin represented District 5 on the City Council from 2013 to until being sworn in as mayor in early 2020, serving the Ballpark, Central 9th, Liberty Wells, East Liberty Park and Wasatch Hollow neighborhoods.
She worked hard and earned a reputation as a policy wonk, ready and eager to get into the weeds of an issue, roll up her sleeves, and get to work. Her creative work on the council resulted in a fundamental shift in the city’s approach to affordable housing, leveraging city dollars in public-private partnerships that dramatically increased the amount of affordable housing units constructed in the city.
Erin’s work on the Council helped double the number of road crews fixing our badly neglected streets, and her work led to the creation of the city’s first women-only homeless resource center.
As chair of the City Council in 2018, Erin stood up to state leaders who took the city’s tax revenue and land-use authority to build an Inland Port in the city’s Northwest Quadrant. She reopened negotiations with state leaders and won valuable concessions to protect the city’s health and long-term interests.
Erin is deeply committed to a brighter future for Salt Lake City.
Erin came to Salt Lake with her family when she was 7 years old, and after losing her father to cancer at age 13, Erin graduated from Alta High School and enrolled at the University of Utah. It was there that her interest in the intersection of science and public policy took shape, leading to a career focused on improving Utah’s air quality and protecting our environment.
She earned a master’s degree in science and technology from the University of Utah and is mom to Cash, Everett, Milå, and their dog, Jack. Erin and her husband, Kyle LaMalfa, a data scientist at Vive Financial, live in the East Liberty Park neighborhood. She loves to cook, hike in the foothills, and ride her e-bike around the city.
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