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Transit Justice: Isabel Tayag ’21 spent part of her internship with South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) talking to MUNI users about their daily experiences and the burdens a proposed fare increase might bring. 🚎 Then, at a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors meeting, Tayag was asked to share some of those stories. “I was shaking, but I pushed through. In fact, that moment really solidified my dream of becoming a lawyer — there is power in words and there is power in speaking up for those who don’t have the privilege to attend an SFMTA board meeting at the top of the Uber building at 2 o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon.” 🗣 Students in Rachel Beth Egenhoefer’s Design Activism class, which works with nonprofits every semester, created posters and images to help promote the transit justice campaign. 🎨💻 In the end, SOMCAN’s campaign helped to make a difference. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to freeze MUNI fare increases for tw...

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