Councilmember Neysa Hinton is running for re-election to the city council this November. She was first elected in 2016. Her time on the council has been full of challenges—flood, fire, COVID, and now the city’s financial crisis.

Hinton grew up in Sebastopol and attended Harmony Union School in Occidental, Twin Hills and Analy High School. She went to college in Idaho. She sees herself as a hometown girl with years of institutional knowledge about the council. Unlike many councilmembers, she has worked fulltime the whole time she’s been in office—primarily as the director of a senior living facility in Marin. She spent much of her early career in radio marketing.

There are two open seats on the council and three candidates: Hinton and two newcomers to Sebastopol politics, Phill Carter and Kee Nethery. Hinton is hoping to parlay her years of experience on the council into a third term.

The Sebastopol Times sat down with Hinton on a sunny Saturday morning to talk about her years on the council and what, if she’s re-elected, she’d like to do next as a councilmember.

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