It’s rare that you find a person under the age of 150 serving on city council in the Coachella Valley, but Palm Springs has an exception in Christy Holstege, a civil litigation attorney with a practice focused on serving underserved communities of the Coachella Valley. Holstege has served on the boards of several organizations including Well of the Desert and Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and as a member of the Palm Springs Homelessness Task Force and Commissioner of the Palm Springs Human Rights Commission. She was instrumental in getting Palm Springs to finally allow Uber and Lyft to pick you up at at the airport and she also, unfortunately, has to deal with some gross comments.
“What’s this beautiful woman doing here.” “I’m a Councilmember.” “For what city?” “This one.” “You’re too pretty to be a Councilmember.” Friendly reminder that no position or power insulates us from routine sexual harassment
— Christy Holstege (@christyholstege) May 4, 2018
She deserves much better than that.
