Healthy Teen Network is honored to recognize Assemblymember Shirley Nash Weber with the 2018 Spirit of Service Award, in recognition of her exceptionally strong commitment to community and youth. In 2015, Assemblymember Weber sponsored and passed the California Healthy Youth Act which requires California school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7-12 receive comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education.

Assemblymember Shirley Nash Weber was elected in November of 2012 to represent California’s 79th Assembly District. Born to sharecroppers of Hope, Arkansas, Shirley Weber has lived in California since the age of 3, and in the 79th Assembly District for over 30 years. Assemblymember Weber chairs the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Public Safety, and also serves as a member of the Assembly Standing Committees on Education, Higher Education, Elections, Budget, and Banking and Finance. Prior to being elected to the Assembly, she served as the mayor’s appointee and Chair on the Citizens’ Equal Opportunity Commission, as well as on the Board of the NAACP, YWCA, YMCA Scholarship Committee, Battered Women Services, United Way, San Diego Consortium and Private Industry Council, and many more.

Healthy Teen Network will celebrate Assemblymember Weber’s efforts by presenting the Spirit of Service award on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, during the awards luncheon at the Hyatt Mission Bay Spa & Marina in San Diego, CA.