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Redwood City – Noelia Corzo, the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants whose years as a social worker shaped her views on housing, public safety and the safety net, was sworn in Tuesday as president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.
In that role, she becomes the first Indigenous person and Latina to serve as board president and will help set policy and funding priorities for programs she once relied upon as a child and later as a single mother raising her son in San Mateo, where she grew up.
The 35-year-old took the oath of office just before 10 a.m., her mother, Aura Solorzano, to her right and her father, Hugo Corzo, to her left. Corzo was sworn in by her partner, Justin Terry, a Marine Corps veteran, and her 14-year-old son, Mikey Alvarado-Corzo. Minutes later, she delivered her first remarks as president of an elected Board that oversees a $5.5 billion annual budget touching nearly everyone from Daly City to East Palo Alto, from the Pacific Coast to San Francisco Bay.
“I personally refuse to accept that it is normal and OK for working-class families to pay more than 30 percent of their income just to have a roof over their heads,” she said to a standing-room-only audience in the Board Chambers and broadcast via Zoom.
“I refuse to accept that it is normal for families to have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to keep their fridges full or to ensure that their children are cared for while they work. That should not be the norm in the United States,” she said. “It shouldn't be the norm in California, and it shouldn't be the norm in San Mateo County.”
Corzo framed her presidency around the idea of shared prosperity, saying the County’s economic growth must translate into tangible stability for working families, renters and small businesses across San Mateo County as well as in her District 2, which includes San Mateo, Foster City and parts of Belmont.
 Supervisor Noelia Corzo raises her right hand as she is sworn in as president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, with her parents standing beside her.
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