Matt Mayan

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  Bachelor's degree in Social Studies, Harvard University (2005)

• Full Name

  Matthew William Mahan

• Birth Date

  1982-11-18

• Birth Place

  Watsonville, California

• Discrepancy

  Related document refers to the entity as 'Matt Mayan' while authoritative search results identify him as 'Matt Mahan'.

• Current Office

  Mayor of San Jose, California

• Political Ideology

  Moderate

• Previous Tech Roles

  CEO of Brigade Media; CEO of Causes

• Political Affiliation

  Democratic Party

Timeline

• Born in Watsonville, California to Bill and Susan Mahan. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1982-11-18

• Graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he served as student body president. (Source: Ballotpedia)

  2005-06-01

• Married Silvia Scandar. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2012-01-01

• Elected to the San Jose City Council representing District 10 with 59% of the vote. (Source: Ballotpedia)

  2020-11-03

• Elected Mayor of San Jose, defeating Cindy Chavez 51% to 49%. (Source: Ballotpedia)

  2022-11-08

• Assumed office as the Mayor of San Jose. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-01-01

• Won re-election outright in the nonpartisan primary for Mayor of San Jose with 86.6% of the vote. (Source: Ballotpedia)

  2024-03-05

• Publicly criticized Sacramento politicians for opposing his efforts regarding street safety and cost reduction. (Source: Twitter/X)

  2025-03-28

Riviera Maya

The Riviera Maya (Spanish pronunciation: [ri'βjeɾa 'maʝa]) is a tourism and resort district south of Cancún, Mexico. It straddles the coastal Federal Highway 307, along the Caribbean coastline of the state of Quintana Roo, located in the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. Originally the name applied narrowly, focusing on the area of coastline between the city of Playa del Carmen and Tulum. The designation has since expanded up and down the coast, now including the towns of Puerto Morelos, situated to the north of Playa del Carmen, as well as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, situated 40 km (25 mi) to the south of Tulum. This larger region is what is currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor. Once the area was originally only called the "Cancun–Tulum corridor", but in 1999 it was renamed as the Riviera Maya, analogous to the Italian and French Riviera, with the instigation of among others, Miguel Ramón Martín Azueta. At the time, he was the municipal president of Solidaridad, Quintana Roo. The Riviera Maya includes the municipalities of Solidaridad in the north and Tulum in the south, and extends approximately 40 km (25 mi) inland, to the border with the state of Yucatán.

Web Search Results

• Meet Matt — Office of Mayor Matt Mahan

  After graduating from Harvard, Mayor Matt spent a year in Bolivia building irrigation systems with family farmers to increase their economic opportunities. He then returned to San José to teach middle school English and History in Alum Rock through the Teach for America program for two years. There, he worked long days, coaching the girl’s soccer team and keeping his classroom open after school as a safe space for his students to learn. When Mayor Matt’s Teach for America program came to a close, he joined Causes, a startup and early Facebook app that enabled people to raise awareness and funds for their favorite nonprofits. Over the course of five years, Mayor Matt worked his way up from Director of Business Development to COO and eventually CEO. Causes ultimately grew to 190 million [...] Mayor Matt has long been deeply involved in the community. He has served on a number of neighborhood and civic boards, including the City of San José’s Clean Energy Advisory Commission, the Almaden Valley Community Association, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the District 10 Leadership Coalition, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, and San José Rotary. He was also a founding member of the Friends of Guadalupe Oak Grove Park and co-led the effort to save the 63 and 13 bus routes in Almaden Valley. [...] There, he was active in community service and student government, joined the wrestling team, and worked on the grounds crew in the summers to pay for his education. Mayor Matt went on to Harvard, where he was an honors student and student body president. He also co-led the first successful campaign to end the university’s investment in companies supporting the genocide in Darfur. ### This experience deepened his passion for civic engagement.

• Matt Mahan

  | v t e Mayors of San Jose, California | [...] | Authority control databases | | International | VIAF WorldCat | | National | United States | Retrieved from "" Categories: 1982 births Living people 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century mayors of places in California American chief executives in technology American technology company founders Bellarmine College Preparatory alumni Businesspeople from San Jose, California California Democrats Democratic Party mayors in California Harvard University alumni Mayors of San Jose, California People from Watsonville, California San Jose City Council members Hidden categories: [...] Matthew William Mahan (born November 18, 1982) is an American politician and tech entrepreneur who has served as the mayor of San Jose, California since 2023( He previously served as the District 10 Councilmember representing the Almaden Valley, Blossom Valley, and Vista Park neighborhoods. Mahan also served as the co-founder and CEO of Brigade Media, a tech company focused on civic engagement. ## Early life and education [edit]

• Mayor Matt Mahan (@MattMahanSJ) / Posts / X - Twitter

  Image 13 Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ · Mar 28, 2025 Real question – I just can't figure out why the Sacramento politicians are so bothered by a mayor fighting for safer streets, lower costs, and to bring everyone indoors. We should all be working together on these basic goals. Image 14 San Jose’s mayor is getting under Democrats’ skin From politico.com 218 212 1.6K 182K Image 15 Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ · Jun 16, 2025 It’s the job of our leaders to implement the will of the people — whether they agree with it or not. Image 16 Newsom doesn’t want to fund tough-on-crime law. Who should? From sfstandard.com 190 308 1.4K 86K Image 17 Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ · Aug 23, 2024 [...] Image 10 Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ · May 28, 2025 I try to stay in my San Jose lane, but as a former East Side public school teacher I have to say — this is a terrible disservice to our students. Lowering standards does not help children. It hurts them. Quote Image 11 Derek Thompson @DKThomp · May 28, 2025 New SF public school plan would - eliminate homework and weekly tests from counting toward semester grade - allow students to take the final exam multiple times - convert all B grades into As, and all Fs into Cs It’s hard to see the difference between this policy and what x.com/JohnTrasvina/s… Show more Image 12: Image 107 218 1.6K 146K Image 13 Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ · Mar 28, 2025 [...] Image 6 Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis · Aug 20, 2025 Official statement regarding @BedBathBeyond We will not open retail stores in California. This isn’t about politics — it’s about reality. California’s system makes it nearly impossible for businesses to succeed, and I won’t put our company, our employees, or our Show more Image 7: Image 286 293 2.8K 254K Image 8 Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ · Nov 26, 2024 Strongly disagree with excluding @Tesla from the proposed program to support EV adoption in California—we want to encourage economies of scale to lower the cost of electric vehicles. Image 9 Tesla Excluded From EV Buyer Credits in California Proposal From bloomberg.com 130 163 1.7K 113K Image 10 Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ · May 28, 2025

• Matt Mahan

  ## Contents 1 Biography 2 Elections + 2.1 2024 - 2.1.1 Endorsements + 2.2 2022 + 2.3 2020 3 Campaign themes + 3.1 2024 + 3.2 2022 + 3.3 2020 4 See also 5 External links 6 Footnotes ## Biography Matt Mahan graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in 2001. He earned a bachelor's degree in social studies from Harvard University in 2005. ## Elections ### 2024 See also: Mayoral election in San Jose, California (2024)) #### Nonpartisan primary election ##### Nonpartisan primary for Mayor of San Jose Incumbent Matt Mahan won election outright against Tyrone Wade in the primary for Mayor of San Jose on March 5, 2024. | | | | --- | Candidate | % | Votes | | ✔ | Matt Mahan (Nonpartisan) | 86.6 | 144,701 | | Tyrone Wade (Nonpartisan) | 13.4 | 22,363 | [...] In 2018, Mahan was appointed to the San Jose Clean Energy Advisory Commission. In 2020#District_10 "City elections in San Jose, California (2020)"), he ran for San Jose City Council and was elected to represent District 10 with 59% of the vote. In 2022 "Mayoral election in San Jose, California (2022)"), he ran for mayor of San Jose, defeating Cindy Chavez 51%-49%. Municipal elections in San Jose are nonpartisan. Mahan is affiliated with the Democratic Party. [...] | | | --- | | There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 167,403 | | = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | | If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | | Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | #### Withdrawn or disqualified candidates Jonathan Esteban) (Nonpartisan) ### 2020 See also: City elections in San Jose, California (2020)) #### Nonpartisan primary election ##### Nonpartisan primary for San Jose City Council District 10

• Meet Matt Mahan, Brigade.com

  When it came time for high school, Matt applied to Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, despite the 50-mile commute. He was accepted, with a scholarship, so he managed to make the one-to-two-hour trip each way daily through an assortment of rides with friends and public transportation. “Matt is an extremely bright, thoughtful, wonderful, kind person and someone who wants to make a difference in the world,” said Ann Ravel, a UC Berkeley law professor and a former Santa Clara County counsel whose son and Mahan were classmates at Bellarmine. She has been a friend and mentor to him since. “Matt has spent his considerable gifts in activities that will make a difference in our community and our society.” [...] Born in San Francisco to Bill Mahan, a letter carrier, and his wife, Susan, a schoolteacher, Matt grew up in Watsonville along with his two younger sisters and remembers reading the Register-Pajaronian newspaper after school at an early age. He recalls finding his passion for politics as a ten-year-old during the presidential election of 1992, when his mother preferred Bill Clinton, his father favored Ross Perot, and a neighbor was supporting George H. W. Bush. “Joint Venture is a passion project for me. I believe in the model and I want to see it grow and get to the next level of impact on the region.” “I thought it was so interesting that they each supported a different candidate and I wanted to understand why.” [...] “I knew Harvard was a good school, but I had pretty much decided on Georgetown because of the incredible experience I had at Bellarmine, which is also a Jesuit school,” said Mahan. “But a friend of mine was going back east to tour schools and they took me along. On my first day visiting Harvard I was hooked, especially after I got into a political discussion with someone on campus.” It was during his first month as a freshman that Matt met a fellow social studies major from Miami, Silvia Scandar. They became friends but remained platonic until their senior year when they began dating. They eventually married in 2012.