About Keith
For A Better San Francisco
Keith Freedman
Keith is a smart and passionate problem-solver bringing technology expertise, educational leadership, and business experience to his mayoral campaign, aiming to fix San Francisco’s buggy government operations. As a dedicated nerd who understands the outsider perspective, Keith values discovering the right ideas at the right time.
With a master’s degree in computer science from Colorado State University, Keith has worked as a software engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and as an educator at City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley.
Keith has kept his small business thriving for the past eight years, providing value to locals and visitors from around the world despite administrative hurdles and pandemic related challenges.
Keith, a 28-year San Franciscan, is well-known to many government officials for his community service. As a member of the San Francisco Tourism Improvement District Board, South of Market Business Association, and AFT Local 2121, he is dedicated to working For A Better San Francisco.
Vote for Keith Freedman, the nerd San Francisco needs, for a future where technology enhances daily life, leadership fosters resilience and progress, and community empowerment drives the city toward a cleaner, brighter, more inclusive, and innovative future.
Gratitude For Educators
Keith comes from a family of Educators and the educated. His siblings are doctors, lawyers and leaders in their fields. Keith taught Computer Programming at City College of San Francisco. He also taught data center monitoring classes in California, Oregon and London. His mother was a teacher before she changed careers and earned her masters degree in Legal Administration while working full-time and raising six children. After obtaining her doctorate in Education, his sister-in-law created a new high school in Denver, Colorado and then developed the curriculum for a high school in Shanghai. His grandmother was a kindergarten teacher her whole life. One of his fondest memories of her impact was a letter the family received from one of her students at his grandmother’s funeral. It read: “I am one of your grandmother’s students. She was my favorite teacher. She was my mother’s teacher and she was also my grandmother’s teacher. She has had a positive impact on three generations of my family.”
When Keith thinks about the most impactful people in his life, most of them were teachers: from his kindergarten teacher who helped him navigate social groups; to his middle school science teacher who taught him that not reading the instructions before doing something might produce unfavorable results; to his high school computer science teacher who saw the spark in his eye when he tinkered with a computer, then fed that spark which led to his career.