San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has selected a new chief of staff.
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Three close aides to San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie are getting promotions after Staci Slaughter, his chief of staff, announced her retirement this week.
Aly Bonde, Lurie’s deputy chief of staff who has helped steer his policy agenda during his campaign and at City Hall, will succeed Slaughter as the mayor’s most senior adviser. Bonde’s current role will be filled by Adam Thongsavat, who is now the mayor’s liaison to the Board of Supervisors. And Eileen Mariano, Lurie’s state and federal affairs manager, will become policy director, the mayor’s office announced Wednesday.
The staffing changes come in response to the decision by Slaughter, a low-key but powerful force in the Lurie administration, to step down in late June after a year and half on the job. Rather than filling Slaughter’s job with someone from the private sector or elsewhere in government, Lurie instead looked internally. The moves indicate that Lurie is keeping his leadership team largely intact as he enters the next phase of his tenure.
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In a statement Wednesday, Lurie said that Bonde, Thongsavat and Mariano had been “a collaborative and effective team” since he was inaugurated in early 2025. He noted that the three had been crucial to his legislative efforts at City Hall and in Sacramento, particularly on policy regarding the drug crisis and the economy.
“We’ve done so much in our first year and a half to get San Francisco moving in the right direction again, and residents are feeling the difference,” Lurie said. “But we have so much more to do, and Aly, Adam, Eileen, and I are ready to keep our foot on the accelerator.”
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Both Bonde and Mariano have family ties to former San Francisco political leaders. Bonde is the great-great-great granddaughter of John Geary, the city’s first mayor. Mariano is the granddaughter of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was also a mayor of San Francisco.
Bonde, 37, led policy development on Lurie’s 2024 mayoral campaign and was one of his early City Hall hires as he staffed up his administration. She started as policy adviser and helped craft Lurie’s first major legislation: an ordinance that cut red tape and allowed the mayor to solicit private funding for initiatives related to addiction, homelessness and mental health services.
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Bonde was promoted to deputy chief of staff last summer after Matthew Goudeau left the mayor’s office. She previously held jobs at Planned Parenthood Northern California and Oakland Thrives, an East Bay nonprofit.
Bonde said in a statement that she thought the Lurie administration had already “made so many common-sense changes that are making families proud to live in San Francisco again.”
“I’m honored and motivated to pick up the baton and continue this work on behalf of the city my family has loved for generations,” Bonde said. “With Mayor Lurie’s relentless dedication to our city and this talented, passionate team, I’m confident that San Francisco’s rise is just beginning.”
Thongsavat, 36, worked closely with city supervisors on behalf of the Lurie administration and previously served as an aide to Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. He has held various other roles in politics and business, including working as a field organizer for former President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and leading Airbnb’s public policy efforts in San Francisco and the western United States.
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Mariano, 33, helmed Lurie’s policy work with the state and federal governments — a job she also did for former Mayor London Breed. She began her career as a nonprofit staffer working on providing behavioral health services for youth.
Lurie has not yet said who will fill Thongsavat’s and Mariano’s current jobs following their promotions.