The nascent District 4 supervisor, Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, has become the first person of Filipino descent ever to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
And San Francisco’s Filipinos, who make up about 4.2 percent of the city, are celebrating.
“It was a moment of pride for the Filipino community,” said Juslyn C. Manalo, a Filipina councilmember and former mayor in Daly City who was raised in SoMa, a stronghold of the Filipino community, until she was eight. “It’s reverberating throughout not only the Bay Area but also out of the state.”…