Sandy Mori
Development Director, Kimochi, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Sandy Mori is the Development Director for Kimochi, Inc. She is a founding member of the organization which was started in 1971. Kimochi, Inc. is a non-profit community-based organization serving the Japanese American and Japanese-speaking elderly in Northern California and seniors in the Western Addition/Richmond/Sunset districts of San Francisco. She is also a founding member of the National Pacific /Asian Resource Center in Aging, which is based in Seattle, Washington.
Ms. Mori is the immediate past Executive Secretary to the San Francisco Health Commission, which is a seven-member governing body appointed by the Mayor to oversee the Department of Public Health and make health policies for the City and County of San Francisco. She was in this position for 14 years. Prior to working for the City, she held positions as a therapeutic and administrative dietician at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, the former French Hospital and the former Presbyterian Hospital in San Francisco.
In her civic responsibilities, Ms. Mori was appointed by the late Mayor George Moscone to the Commission on the Status of Women, serving from 1976 to 1980. In 1979, she was the President of the Commission and was the first Asian American woman to chair a City Commission. From 1985 to 1989, Sandy served on the Democratic National Committee. Currently, Ms. Mori serves as Co-Chair on Mayor Gavin Newsom's San Francisco Long Term Care Coordinating Council. She also serves on the San Francisco Community Partnership for Older Adults and the Western Addition Citizens Advisory Committee. She is President of the Glide Cecil Williams Housing Board of Directors.
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