Four days after Mission Local’s story about the hiring of controversial Asian politico Josephine Zhao as a public school’s Black family liaison, San Francisco’s NAACP took action, asking the district to move her “immediately” to a different site.
Zhao, who was hired as a Black family liaison at James Lick Middle School in August, has nearly a decade of experience as a family liaison at San Francisco public schools. Other than that, she is also a well-connected Asian political organizer whose divisive history — including making transphobic remarks in 2013 and 2018 — have raised concerns in the James Lick school community.
“We called for the district to immediately move her to a different site because she’s an inappropriate person for that position,” said NAACP’s education chairperson Virginia Marshall, who hopes to hear an answer from the district before the end of next week. “We were just appalled that she’s been in that position ever since August and our community did not know.”…