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Kanishka Cheng: The Most Influential San Franciscan You’ve Never Heard Of?

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Kanishka Cheng, co-founder of TogetherSF, poses for a portrait the KQED headquarters in San Francisco on May 1, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

When the San Francisco Chronicle recently compiled a list of the 20 most influential people working mostly behind the scenes in San Francisco, Kanishka Cheng was first on the list. She co-founded and heads the group TogetherSF Action and its sister organization TogetherSF. Like similar groups recently created in the city, TogetherSF wants to push city policy from the left toward the middle. Cheng joins Scott to talk about their priorities, tactics and potential conflicts of interest.

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