Tasked with overseeing San Francisco’s city-funded programs that train unemployed, underemployed, and hard-to-employ residents and connect them to sustainable job opportunities in myriad fields is IOWAYNA PEÑA. Since January, the well-known lesbian leader has served as director of San Francisco Workforce Development.

The division is within the city's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, at which Peña years ago had worked as a development project manager. She had left in 2020 when the SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS baseball team hired her as its director of government affairs and real estate development.

In that high-profile position, Peña played a critical role in the Giants’ Mission Rock mixed-used development built on a former parking lot across from its Mission Bay ballpark. Two years

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