Election 2015: Reed Martin on why he should be SF's next mayor

KALW | By Ben Trefny

Published October 21, 2015 at 5:37 PM PDT

Reed Martin is running for mayor of San Francisco.

Martin has worked in the tech industry as a design thinker. He’s served on committees concerned with Market Street and city transit. And he has a plan to dedicate up to 90 million dollars of city budget money to funding ideas generated by the public.

We’ve been talking with all six San Franciscans with their names on the ballot for mayor. This is Reed Martin, in an interview with KALW's Ben Trefny.

I think we need to really orient tech around solving some of those big problems, and addressing how we are impacting them today, and how we can grow a much better city as a whole.

For the full interview with Reed Martin, click here.

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Ben Trefny

I joined KALW in 2004. As Executive News Editor and then News Director, I helped our news department win numerous regional and national awards for long- and short-form journalism. I've also helped create numerous training programs — for teenagers, incarcerated people, and early-career journalists — and have taught hundreds of audio producers. I served as interim Executive Director for nearly two years. My work is currently focused on creating original live events, programming, and building partnerships with like-minded organizations.

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