Janice Li was elected to the BART Board in 2018 to represent over 400,000 San Franciscans living in BART District 8, which covers Embarcadero, Montgomery, Glen Park, and Balboa Park stations.

After successfully winning her race, Janice became the first Asian American woman ever elected to the BART Board and the first woman to ever serve in the District 8 seat.

Janice currently works at Chinese for Affirmative Action, where she directs a new coalition formed by four long-standing organizations with over 200+ years of combined experience working to serve San Francisco’s Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and advance AAPI civil rights. This Coalition for Community Safety and Justice was formed specifically to address AAPI community safety issues in San Francisco through programming and advocacy. In this role, Janice has helped secure over $6 million of funding in local and state grants to invest in AAPI direct victim services, cross-racial programming, and community-building events.

Prior to CAA, Janice worked at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for over eight years, where she led countless campaigns to make San Francisco streets more walkable, bikeable, and transit-first. Through her work at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, she was deeply engaged in budget advocacy, helped win multiple transportation revenue measures, advocated for streamlined project approvals and implementation, and successfully won many campaigns for better bike infrastructure, more pedestrian safety improvements, and transit-first street designs.

Janice was born in Hong Kong and moved to the United States at a young age, where she was raised on the East Coast. She grew up in Buffalo, NY and then attended New York University, where she graduated with honors from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Prior to moving to San Francisco, Janice lived and worked in Buffalo, where she worked for PUSH Buffalo and founded a community center for youth. She currently lives in the Inner Richmond with her partner Danielle and their Muttville rescue dog, Whimsey.