23 Facts About Christopher Cabaldon

Christopher L Cabaldon was born on November 12,1965 and is a Filipino-American politician who is a member of the California State Senate for the 3rd district, serving since 2024.

Christopher Cabaldon previously served as mayor of West Sacramento from 1998 to 2020, where was the longest-serving mayor in the city's history.

Christopher Cabaldon represents the State of California on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education.

Christopher Cabaldon earned a Masters in Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Sacramento in its founding class, where he later taught as an adjunct faculty member, received the institution's "Distinguished Service Award," and later was appointed as a tenured faculty member to one of the university's first endowed chairs.

Christopher Cabaldon began in government as Chief Consultant and Staff Director at the age of 24 to the California State Assembly Higher Education Committee and then Chief of Staff to the chair of Appropriations Committee.

Christopher Cabaldon began his professional career as Legislative Director of the University of California Students Association, before working for legislative higher education committee chairs Tom Hayden and Marguerite Archie-Hudson.

From 1997 to 2003, Christopher Cabaldon was vice chancellor of the California Community Colleges System, with executive responsibility for policy, planning, strategy, research, information systems and data, governmental relations, public affairs, and other initiatives for the system of 110 colleges.

Christopher Cabaldon then took over as chief executive officer of EdVoice, a nonprofit education advocacy organization founded and chaired by Reed Hastings.

Christopher Cabaldon later served as president of the Linked Learning Alliance, program officer for the California Education Policy Fund, and co-director of the California Legislative Staff Education Institute.

Christopher Cabaldon is chair of the commission's policy and research committee.

In 2019, Christopher Cabaldon was appointed to the tenured faculty of California State University, Sacramento as the Hazel Cramer Endowed Chair and Professor of Public Policy and Administration.

Christopher Cabaldon has served as President of Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, and as a director for the Cal Alumni Association, Foundation for the California Community Colleges, University of California, Davis School of Education and EdSource.

Christopher Cabaldon became Mayor of West Sacramento in 1998 and served in that capacity for all but two of the subsequent 22 years.

Christopher Cabaldon joined a network of a dozen cities in digital badge initiative launched at South by Southwest's education festival to support out-of-classroom learning, skills, and microcredentials for local teens; this work became a national model.

In June 2007 Christopher Cabaldon authored a resolution for the US Conference of Mayors that supported the Filipino Veterans Fairness Act, that was passed unanimously at the annual conference.

In 2019, Christopher Cabaldon was named chair of the LGBTQ Mayors Alliance.

Christopher Cabaldon was founder and chairman of the board for the Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Project, a founding member and president of both the Asian Pacific Islander caucus and LGBT Local Officials caucus of the League of California Cities, and a founding member of the Capital Unity Council, a group created to eradicate hate crime violence.

Christopher Cabaldon has served on an array of state and regional commissions, including being appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly to the Commission on Regionalism, President of the Yolo County Health Council, member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the Governor's Initiative to Turn Around Failing Schools, appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, and a member of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Protection Commission.

Christopher Cabaldon was President of the National Brownfields Association, chair of the Yolo County Transportation District, chair of the Yolo County Health Council, and a director for the Great Valley Center.

Christopher Cabaldon was selected mayor of West Sacramento by fellow council members in November 1998, after first being elected to the City Council in 1996.

Christopher Cabaldon was a candidate for the 8th district in the California State Assembly in 2008, losing the primary by three percentage points to Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada.

Christopher Cabaldon served as California co-chair of Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign.

An in-depth Comstock's magazine cover story, Behind Closed Doors, told the story of the death of Christopher Cabaldon's mother when he was a young boy and the ongoing process of coping, persevering, and finding meaning and purpose after loss.