"A Day On, Not a Day Off"
This year, the Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Network (BFSA) held a virtual event honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., featuring special guest speaker Willie L. Brown Jr.
Willie L. Brown Jr.: Two-term Mayor of San Francisco, legendary Speaker of the 
California State Assembly, and widely regarded as the most influential African-
American politician of the late twentieth century, Willie L. Brown, Jr., has been
at the center of California politics, government, and civic life for an astonishing
four 
decades. His career spans the American Presidency from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, and
he’s worked with every California Governor from Pat Brown to Arnold Schwarzenegger. From civil rights to education reform, tax policy, economic development, health care,
international trade, domestic partnerships, and affirmative action, he’s left his
imprimatur on every aspect of politics and public policy in the Golden State. As Mayor of California’s most cosmopolitan city, he refurbished and rebuilt the nation’s
busiest transit system, pioneered the use of bond measures to build affordable housing,
created a model juvenile justice system, and paved the way for a second campus of
the University of California, San Francisco, to serve as the anchor of a new development
that will position the City as a center for the burgeoning field of biotechnology. Today, he heads the Willie L. Brown, Jr., Institute on Politics and Public Service,
where this acknowledged master of the art of politics shares his knowledge and skills
with a new generation of California leaders.
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.