Kelly Candaele currently serves as a Board Member of the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System (LACERS) Board of Administration.

Mr. Candaele is a writer, filmmaker and elected official in Los Angeles. For the past ten years Mr. Candaele has written extensively for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Nation magazine, and other national publications. Mr. Candaele has also lectured at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Occidental College in Los Angeles, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. He is a founding member of the Peace Institute.

In the 1990s, Mr. Candaele was Policy Director at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, and in 1996 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District, where he has served three terms as a Trustee and two terms as the Board President.

Mr. Candaele studied European History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He obtained a Masters Degree in Psychology and Counseling from California State University, Chico.

Current Term: 09/23/2005 - 06/30/2009