Leslie Murdock is the founder and CEO of DeZigning Digital, a Silicon Valley–based AI strategy consultancy helping small businesses compete and grow in a rapidly evolving digital economy. As an entrepreneur and senior business advisor, Leslie brings firsthand experience navigating the regulatory, economic and technological realities facing California’s small business community.
On March 10, Booksmith and Kepler's Books owner Christin Evans submitted testimony to the California Joint Assembly and Seante Health Committees on how rising healthcare prices impact small businesses and recommendations on how to make health insurance more affordable.
On behalf of a broad coalition representing over 500 for-profit financing companies and nonprofit advocates for economic opportunity, as well as thousands of small business owners, Small Business Majority, the Responsible Business Lending Coalition and CAMEO network offered strong support for SB 362 and request that California Governor Newsome sign it into law. This bill will create a fair financial marketplace where good actors compete fairly and small businesses thrive.
On September 5, Small Business Majority joined 25+ organizations in sending an Assembly Floor Alert in support of AB 1415 (Bonta), which ensures that the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) can fully review increasingly complex healthcare merger’s impacts on consumer access and affordability, including private equity mergers in healthcare.
On September 5, Small Business Majority signed onto a letter with 50 other organizations calling on California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign SB 81, which would safeguard access to healthcare facilities for all Californians by protecting people’s immigration status and place of birth information from being disclosed and prohibiting healthcare providers from granting access to nonpublic areas of healthcare facilities for immigration enforcement purposes.
Small Business Majority joined Rise Economy and 40+ other California community organizations and allies, in response to the agencies’ proposal to rescind the 2023 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rule (“2023 Rule”).
On September 9, Small Business Majority, along with 100+ business and advocacy organizations, signed on to a California Assembly Floor Alert in support of SB 590 (Durazo), which would allow qualifying workers to use California Paid Family Leave to care for a seriously ill “designated person,” meaning that California workers could use Paid Family Leave to care for a member of their chosen or extended family.
Suli Kenyatta is the newest member of Small Business Majority’s Outreach Team, supporting entrepreneurship and the small business ecosystem in Northern California. Our outreach team helps entrepreneurs on two fronts: It advocates for policies that benefit small businesses and it offers webinars and in-person events that offer entrepreneurs tips on how to grow their businesses. This work is more important than ever as the United States has seen record small business growth in recent years, yet we still struggle nationwide to help small businesses access capital, afford healthcare and childcare, and compete on a level playing field with large corporations.
Small Business Majority wrote to the California Assembly Appropriations Committee in support of AB 265, the California Small Business Recovery Fund Act. This legislation addresses a critical gap in disaster recovery assistance for small businesses and nonprofit organizations that are disproportionately affected by severe weather events and other declared states of emergency
CAMEO Network, The Responsible Business Lending Coalition and Small Business Majority submitted a letter to the California Senate Judiciary Committee in support for Senate Bill 825 (Limón/Grayson). This bill clarifies that the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) retains the authority under the California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) to enforce protections against deceptive or abusive practices, even for individuals or entities otherwise exempt from the CCFPL due to holding certain licenses.
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