It's Monday and we're back at it.

Today's weather: High of 70, low of 54.

Situational awareness: The San Francisco Unified School District is pausing plans for school closures after Superintendent Matt Wayne resigned Friday. Maria Su, head of the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, will take over the role.

• Also: An Unfair Labor Practice strike authorization vote kicks off today for over 4,000 health care, research and technical workers at UCSF amid stalled negotiations with the UC system.

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The anti-poverty nonprofit United Way Bay Area (UWBA) will announce a new CEO today, Axios has learned — its first Black leader since the organization was founded over 100 years ago.

Why it matters: Keisha Browder will head the nonprofit as it seeks to meet its goal of helping at least 1 million Bay Area residents access pathways to economic security in a region with some of the largest income disparities in the nation.

• Her appointment also comes as women of color remain underrepresented in nonprofit leadership.

Driving the news: Browder joins UWBA after serving as CEO of United Way Santa Cruz County for six years, UWBA exclusively told Axios.

• Her tenure there "is a testament to her understanding of United Way's unique ability to mobilize a region to meet community needs," Gioia McCarthy, chair of the UWBA board of directors, said in a statement shared with Axios.
• In her new role, Browder will lead strategic partnerships in the community and oversee resource development, programming and financial operations.

What she's saying: "The Bay Area is a place where many thrive while others barely survive," Browder told Axios.

• A 2022 San Francisco Chronicle analysis found that the top 5% of earners in San Francisco make nearly 11 times more than the bottom 20%.

State of play: Browder's work with United Way Santa Cruz County included efforts to bolster youth substance use prevention, improve demographics data collection, distribute resource kits for local immigrants and increase grants to groups led by people of color.

• "I'm ready to take a lot of the best practices that I've implemented in Santa Cruz and scale it here," she said.

Between the lines: While she called the historic nature of her appointment "an amazing honor," Browder also said "I'm definitely going to make sure that I'm not the last."

• "You do get this feeling that you're being watched, for good or bad, and I'm okay with that because I want ... to shine the light on the impact."

The big picture: UWBA was founded in 1922 to assist people living in poverty and dismantle its root causes across the Bay Area's nine counties.

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While fall in San Francisco doesn't quite compare to the season in other parts of the country, peak fall foliage will be here before you know it.

Driving the news: Using historical weather reports, tree species info and user data, travel brand SmokyMountains.com put together 2024 foliage prediction maps of the U.S.

• In San Francisco, leaves will start to glow orange and red in the next few weeks before reaching their peak in early November,

It's a good time to hit up the Botanical Garden or the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.

• Or, if you're down for a little road trip, you can catch some good views of fall foliage at the Filoli Historic House & Garden in Woodside, along the coast near Big Sur and in Yosemite National Park.

Right now in San Francisco, approximately $8 of every Uber trip goes towards covering government-related taxes, fees and regulatory requirements.

What you need to know: Prop L would significantly increase that rideshare trip fee while only raising 12% of the money the SFMTA needs to address its over $200 million deficit.

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