Thursday, April 9, 2026

The scammers of the social justice industry

Disgraced SF human rights chief collects city retirement benefits as corruption case moves through courts

A former San Francisco human rights boss accused of squandering city funds to pay for personal projects and her son’s tuition is still collecting a taxpayer-backed check as she faces a battery of criminal charges in court

Sheryl Davis — 57-year-old former head of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission who resigned in September 2024 after she was accused of conflicts of interest — is receiving a retirement benefit of $4,952.23 per month, according to the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement system.

Davis was hired in 2018 to lead the troubled Human Rights Commission and earned close to $340,000 in total comp in her final full year of employment. 

She left following revelations that she steered contracts toward Collective Impact, a nonprofit run by her live-in partner James Spingola that raked in $8.5 million through the Dream Keeper Initiative, a flagship city program intended to help San Francisco’s black communities after the George Floyd police murder in Minneapolis in 2020.

A subsequent city audit and ethics probe alleged that Davis — as head of the Human Rights Commission and later the Dream Keeper Initiative — burned taxpayer dollars in “frivolous” and “unethical” ways and skimmed funds for personal use.



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