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Campaign Positions and Accomplishments
NANCY PEARLMAN CAMPAIGN INFORMATION AND POSITIONS
FOR NOVEMBER 3, 2026 ELECTION
SEAT 4, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Contact Info:
Nancy Pearlman
Cell: 213 705-4992
P. O. Box 351419, Los Angeles, CA 90035
ABRANCHP@aol.com
No FPPC ID number, No committee name
Campaign Treasurer/Manager/Consultant: self
Facebook has a page for Nancy Pearlman, Los Angeles Community College District.
Website has a page for campaign: NancyPearlman.net
Website for environmental and humanitarian activities: ecoprojects.org
Seat 4: LACCD trustees serve the entire district and I am running in seat 4 but it represents the entire district including the city of Los Angeles from the San Fernando Valley to the Palos Verdes Peninsula and 33 other cities from South Gate to Beverly Hills.
Thank you for your considering support for my candidacy.
Reasons for Running for Office:
Community colleges are a fantastic resource for students to learn trades, prepare for four-year colleges and for life-long learners to continue their education. I attended Los Angeles City College before going to UCLA for my BA in Anthropology or Antioch University for my Masters in Urban Studies and Planning or USC for my teaching credentials. I have taught in the LACCD District before and after I was a trustee. I know how the system works, what the students and faculty want, and how to interact with the community.
Having previously served on the Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2017, I was successful in leading the effort to have the nine billion dollar building program operate sustainably with LEEDS standards (I was the only trustee who knew what LEEDS was) and I would like to be sure that the bonds are still spent appropriately.
Since over 65% of faculty are part-timers, as I have been in the District, I advocate for equal pay and opportunities.
Student success is critical and services should be available to make sure that students excel and have good transfer opportunities. High academic standards must be maintained.
Experience on environmental, community, and educational issues.
I have spent my entire adult life as an educator teaching at different levels (middle school, high school, community college, and university) and running nonprofit educational organizations.
I am a lifelong environmentalist, having coordinated the first Earth Day in southern California in 1970. I founded the Ecology Center of Southern California, Project Ecotourism, Campus Greening and many other projects with the non-profit organization Educational Communications. Since 1977 I have volunteered to host and produce over 2550 broadcast (not podcast) radio programs on the environment (samples on Youtube: Environmental Directions with Nancy Pearlman). Since 1984 I have hosted and produced over 600 television documentaries and received three EMMY nominations. I did the first documentary about the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Rim of the Valley Corridor and the first program on Wind Energy in the United States.
My work locally, nationally, and internationally has been recognized by the United Nations Environment Programme, for which I was honored as a Global 500 Laureate. I have been active with many nonprofit environmental, conservation, humanitarian, social justice and political organizations having served on numerous boards and advisory councils. The full-page list is available on request.
Issues confronting LACCD
Student Concerns: Resources must be made available to help students achieve their goals. Enrollment needs to be increased. High academic standards must be maintained.
Community and Constituent Concerns: It is important that Trustees listen to the concerns of the community college family as well as the local community. For example, one citizen approached me to advocate for permanent standard time because it is healthier for students, faculty, and staff; the District needs to look into this and other issues.
Governmental Management
The Board of Trustees major job is to allocate the annual budget to nine colleges and the District office as well as to hire and work with the Chancellor and the Presidents of the Colleges. It is important to examine these areas and take actions if required.
Environmental Issues
The colleges have important resources that should be better utilized. In addition to saving Gold Creek Ecological Preserve from being sold, I fought to save the Pierce College Farm.
When I was a Trustee, I advocated to have designated parking lots at all nine colleges for the unhoused students and to have restrooms and shower facilities available to them twenty-four hours. I will continue to advocate for helping students. Community colleges are considering having housing and those options need to be explored.
Environmental issues are major to my campaign. The LACCD was and should be a leader in sustainability. Our resources should be used to promote ecological issues. Climate change must be addressed and that means governmental agencies should actively work for renewable energy, reuse of water, more open space, reduction of toxics in the environment, more effective recycling of waste, eliminating heat islands on governmental buildings and parking areas, using college facilities to help homeless students, creating better mass transit options with more and better bus routes and metro lines. LACCD, when I was a Trustee, was a leader nationwide in sustainable building and the bond program needs to be improved to reestablish that position.
Much more needs to be done. For example: When I was a trustee I was actively trying to connect West Los Angeles College with the Kenneth Hahn Regional Park and to have courses for potential park rangers. I wanted all the colleges to have organic farms not just the three with culinary programs. I tried to eliminate toxic cleaners, pesticides, and other chemicals and will keep working to make that happen. Without my being on the Board, these initiatives ceased. There are many other ecological issues that I was trying to establish in the LACCD and will continue to advocate for: small ones like making sure paper reports are printed on recycled paper and two-sided; big ones like selling back excess power to the LA DWP. As a Trustee I worked hard and will continue to work hard if elected to have the LACCD operate ecologically and sustainably such as removing toxic chemicals and pesticides, landscaping with natives, having functioning recycling programs, purchasing nonvirgin paper, getting more environmental studies courses, having public transit accessible at all campuses, putting solar panels over parking lots and on roofs, having organic and vegetarian foods available, etc.
Opponents
I am the most qualified of the candidates to make board decisions due to my experience, my degrees, and my commitment to the LACCD. I am not using this position as a stepping stone to other political offices.
Campaign Financing
Often groups think I am not “viable” because I don’t have a big campaign chest; but remember, I won the first time in 2001 spending less than 1000 dollars and plan to do so again; and I won an additional three times with a small budget. In the past I had a campaign committee and was actively raising money. This time I have chosen to not spend my time raising money for wasteful slate mailers but to work to get out the vote and educate the public about how great LACCD is. Fundraising is not my primary campaign goal. Instead, I am spending my time trying to educate the electorate that the LACCD is important and to get their vote. I am trying to use my experience in the media to do so as well and to use my connections with various organizations to promote my campaign.
Endorsements:
These are extremely important and meaningful because it shows voters who is behind a candidate and also lets members and supporters of endorsing organizations know who candidates are.
Sadly, it has been hard to get endorsements from the very entities that should be supporting me. In 2017, the AFT Faculty union made it clear that they would support me if I voted the way they told me to; I am not a puppet but will work with them and will vote for what is right. Since then they do not interview candidates but chose someone before candidates even file for office.
Sadly, too, the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee has never endorsed me even though I have been a Democrat for over 55 years and was even on their Central Committee. In 2017 they would not even give me three minutes to speak to my candidacy and they have never invited me since then to be interviewed for an endorsement. Sadly, many Democrat clubs simply endorse whoever the Central Committee endorses without realizing it is not a democratic endorsement.
ENDORSENTS FOR NOV. 3, 2026 ELECTION
Americans for Democratic Action of Southern California
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains