Liza Welsh would go above and beyond for Eureka

Liza Welsh has been and always will be a person of the highest integrity. I have known her for the past seven years, after a fateful encounter that involved an airplane crash, and I have seen her stand by her values and honesty. I have seen her fight for the rights of others for the entire seven years I have known her. When she was attending university in Oakland at Mills, she went before the City Council there in support of equity for small cannabis business owners. In her work with various music festivals, I saw her help organize workers and assist peers who had been taken advantage of by production companies. Recently, I see her working hard to protect the benefits and pay for her fellow county workers, including those in administration, law enforcement, and health and human services. She spent her early quarantine days this year diving head first into assembling, distributing, and helping with a project I started to provide an inexpensive supply chain for face shields for medical providers. Being just an engineer myself, I realized early on that I needed her help to ensure an equitable and broad distribution of the face shields. Working from home, I’ve seen more of how she deeply cares for the environment and also for the future for Humboldt’s economy. Liza would go above and beyond for the people of Eureka and would absolutely be the hardest worker that the City Council could hope to have.

— Matt Stephenson, Eureka