Kiyomi Kowalski


I want to tell everyone about an amazing neighbor I recently met: Kiyomi Kowalski. She’s running for a spot on the Las Virgenes School District board against all incumbents. If she wins, she’d be the first African American to ever become a LVUSD board member.

Kiyomi lives in the Castle Peak community with her partner of nearly a decade and their children, age 11 and 3.

She’s a Marine Corp. veteran with a law degree. She’s the community coordinator on the Board of Jewish Education at Valley Outreach Synagogue, and a board member of the Law Project of Los Angeles.

She’s also the co-president of the San Fernando Valley chapter of Mocha Moms Inc.

After our first conversation, we found Kiyomi to be incredibly dynamic with an energy and passion for kids and our community that is contagious. She’s making the rounds at all of the area community events.

I hope you get the opportunity to meet one of our most interesting and inspiring members of our community, whose top priority is to make our school district a better place for all of our kids.

Dana Sieden
Agoura Hills

I write to you to express my excitement and support for Kiyomi Kowalski’s LVUSD school board membership campaign.

As a Marine Corp. veteran, lawyer and mother, Kiyomi has a unique perspective of policy and procedure. She hopes this knowledge will foster an educational environment that creates model students, model citizens and work-force-ready adults.

I have known her to be an exemplary role model and motivated, powerful agent of positive change for over a decade. Please join me in supporting her, and be sure to vote on Nov. 6.

Amy Chesler
Woodland Hills