By Sara Beth Williams– — After becoming the first Black female elected official in the city in 2018, Citrus Heights Vice Mayor Porsche Middleton said she felt the pressure and spent her first year as a City Council member feeling “timid and reserved.”
As she grew in knowledge through her experience, Middleton said she began to realize she was elected to her position as a councilmember in the same way as all her colleagues.
“It was empowering as a woman of color to say, ‘I’m going to use my voice, I’m going to stand up for what I believe is right, and I’m going to advocate,’” Middleton said in a Feb. 6 interview with The Sentinel…