Aishwarya Mitra

Aishwarya Mitra's career experience includes working as a researcher. Mitra earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego and a graduate degree from Columbia University.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Sparky Mitra is a housing justice organizer, bioengineer and UC San Diego alum.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

We must restore peoples’ economic freedom and dignity and make San Diego more affordable. It is time that the top 1% paid their fair share to the workers that have ensured their success. Instead of using our taxes to pay for endless wars and genocide abroad, it is time that Congress worked for the people it is meant to represent. These funds can be used to fund the Social Security Expansion Act, federally-funded public transit, equity initiatives. These investments will allow us to build a future where scientific progress, economic security, and opportunity are not privileges, but rights shared by all.We are demanding care over cruelty. Dignity without delay. And it’s time our representation caught up. As people across the country are surveilled for merely existing and silenced for speaking out, we must push back against federally-backed campaigns of terror. Trump and his allies are attacking democracy itself, from the rights to protest and exist freely to the rights to fair jobs and livable wages. We can’t afford to wait this out. Towards this, we must also ABOLISH ICE. With the onslaught of domestic attacks on speech and human rights by our current administration, it is more important than ever to defend and assert our human rights. This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States.Our tradition of innovation in San Diego is losing its human touch. My extensive engineering background in research and policy-forward settings alike has uniquely equipped me with bold ideas to legislate on, such as creating government-funded LABraries to democratize science innovation. Progress doesn’t mean pushing profits over people. We need leaders capping drug prices while supporting funding for research. I will fight for Universal Healthcare and protect medical innovation. The bold path is the realistic one. Delay has already cost us too much. Our people and planet need decisive action like passing the Green New Deal, not half-measures.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Affordability, science funding, housing justice, healthcare, immigrants' rights, free speech, democratic values, climate change

Note: Mitra submitted the above survey responses to [the profile publisher] on January 21, 2026.

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December 17 submission

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

We must restore peoples’ economic freedom and dignity and make San Diego more affordable. It is time that the top 1% paid their fair share to the workers that have ensured their success. Instead of using our taxes to pay for endless wars and genocide abroad, it is time that Congress worked for the people it is meant to represent. These funds can be used to fund the Social Security Expansion Act, federally-funded public transit, equity initiatives. These investments will allow us to build a future where scientific progress, economic security, and opportunity are not privileges, but rights shared by all.We are demanding care over cruelty. Dignity without delay. And it’s time our representation caught up.

As people across the country are surveilled for merely existing and silenced for speaking out, we must push back against federally-backed campaigns of terror. Trump and his allies are attacking democracy itself, from the rights to protest and exist freely to the rights to fair jobs and livable wages. We can’t afford to wait this out. With the onslaught of domestic attacks on speech and human rights by our current administration, it is more important than ever to defend and assert our human rights. This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States.Our tradition of innovation in San Diego is losing its human touch. My extensive engineering background in research and policy-forward settings alike has uniquely equipped me with bold ideas to legislate on, such as creating government-funded LABraries to democratize science innovation. Progress doesn’t mean pushing profits over people. We need leaders capping drug prices while supporting funding for research. I will fight for Universal Healthcare and protect medical innovation. The bold path is the realistic one. Delay has already cost us too much. Our people and planet need decisive action like passing the Green New Deal, not half-measures.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Affordability, science funding, housing justice, healthcare, immigrants' rights, free speech, democratic values, climate change