Mission Local has learned that Kate Sofis, the head of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development is slated to next week officially leave her post.
While the reason for her departure has not been announced, she leaves following allegations leveled against her in two lawsuits that she improperly used her city position to curry access and benefit her former place of business, SFMade.
Sofis was executive director of SFMade, a nonprofit that advocates for manufacturing in San Francisco, before she was appointed to lead the Office of Economic and Workforce Development by Mayor London Breed in March 2021.
The conflict-of-interest complaints against Sofis stem from a pair of lawsuits filed in April and May by Humanmade, a nonprofit based in San Francisco that trains workers for manufacturing roles, against Sofis’ former nonprofit…
