Oliver Ma grew up in Southern California in an immigrant family. Graduating from UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School, he pursued a career in law to fight for working families, representing tenants against slumlords, developing Asian youth to be leaders, and defending immigrant families against illegal ICE raids.
He has spent the last several years on the frontlines in Bakersfield, seeing firsthand how corporate landlords, broken policies, and political corruption devastate communities. Along the way, he has trained volunteers to protect protestors for Palestine, litigated cases that stopped ICE’s attacks on our communities, and organized for housing justice and tenant protections.
Oliver is running so that when you pay your taxes, you see the results outside your window. So families go to sleep at night, without the fear of eviction or deportation. He’s running because California has and will continue to lead change.
