Randy Shaw

Randy Shaw is an attorney, author, and activist who lives in Berkeley, California. He is the executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, a nonprofit organization in San Francisco that he co-founded in 1980. He has also co-founded and is on the board of directors of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc., a nonprofit organization that spearheaded the creation of the national Uptown Tenderloin Historic District in 2009, and of the Tenderloin Museum, which opened in the spring of 2015. Shaw is also the editor of online news website Beyond Chron and an author focused on activism.