Mayor Lurie Elevates Aly Bonde To Chief Of Staff, Announces New Members Of Mayor's Office Leadership Team

SAN FRANCISCO – Mayor Daniel Lurie today appointed Aly Bonde to serve as chief of staff, elevating a policy expert who has served in government across the Bay Area. Mayor Lurie also announced that Adam Thongsavat will serve as deputy chief of staff and Eileen Mariano as policy director, adding two accomplished Mayor’s Office veterans to the leadership team.

Bonde has been serving as deputy chief of chief in the Mayor’s Office, advising Mayor Lurie on a wide range of policy issues from the behavioral health crisis to affordable housing. Thongsavat has been serving as liaison to the Board of Supervisors, facilitating Mayor Lurie’s close working relationship with the Board, while Mariano has led the office’s work in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., passing legislation to advance public safety and the city’s economic recovery while securing critical state and federal funding. Thongsavat and Mariano will continue to report to Bonde.

“Aly, Adam, and Eileen have been a collaborative and effective team since we took office last year—partnering with the Board of Supervisors and the state Legislature to pass major legislation to get drugs off our streets and drive our economic recovery,” said Mayor Lurie. “We’ve done so much in our first year and a half to get San Francisco moving in the right direction again, and residents are feeling the difference. But we have so much more to do, and Aly, Adam, Eileen, and I are ready to keep our foot on the accelerator.”

"Every day, tens of thousands of city workers work strive to make our city safer, cleaner, and more vibrant. And in the last 18 months, we have made so many common-sense changes that are making families proud to live in San Francisco again,” said Bonde. “I’m honored and motivated to pick up the baton and continue this work on behalf of the city my family has loved for generations. With Mayor Lurie’s relentless dedication to our city and this talented, passionate team, I’m confident that San Francisco’s rise is just beginning.”

Aly Bonde is an accomplished public policy and local government leader with extensive experience working across a breadth of policy areas in the Bay Area. Having led policy development on Mayor Lurie’s campaign, she brings a holistic view of the policy challenges facing the residents of San Francisco to City Hall. In her previous role as director of government relations at Planned Parenthood Northern California, she worked with local jurisdictions across 20 counties to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health care. Before that role, she served as senior director of public policy and finance at Oakland Thrives/Youth Ventures Joint Powers Authority, delivering a $100 million public-private partnership for East Oakland and running one of the largest guaranteed income pilots in the country. Bonde has an undergraduate degree from U.C. Davis and a master’s degree from the U.C. Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. She is a sixth-generation Californian and the great-great-great granddaughter of the first mayor of San Francisco.

Adam Thongsavat has been Mayor Lurie’s liaison to the Board of Supervisors after serving as a legislative aide to District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. Thongsavat has held a variety of roles across the political, private, and public sectors. He began his career as a field organizer for President Obama’s re-election campaign in Ohio and has since contributed to Democratic campaigns nationwide, including congressional, senate, gubernatorial, and presidential races. From 2015 to 2021, Thongsavat led Airbnb’s community affairs and public policy efforts in San Francisco and across the U.S. West.

Eileen Mariano is a fourth-generation San Franciscan born and raised in the city. She started her career in the nonprofit sector, providing high-acuity behavioral health services to kids. Wanting to move upstream and affect change at a systems level, Mariano transitioned into policy in 2022, working for Mayor London Breed as her youth and families advisor and then as manager of state and federal affairs, continuing in that role under Mayor Lurie. During that time, she led implementation of the Children and Family Recovery Plan; launched an historic early educator workforce compensation initiative; supported transformative changes to the state’s conservatorship, public safety, and housing streamlining laws; and coordinated the city’s efforts to secure major investments in transportation, parks, and climate improvements across San Francisco. She received her bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University and her Master of Public Health from Harvard University.