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Webster Lincoln | |
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| File:Rdf 4289-2.jpg Lincoln in 2020 | |
| Mayor of East Palo Alto, California | |
| Assumed office December 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Martha Barragan |
| Member of the East Palo Alto City Council | |
| Assumed office December 17, 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 15, 1987 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Relatives | Jamila Reinhardt (sister) Kevin Lincoln (cousin) |
| Residence | East Palo Alto, California |
| Education | Menlo-Atherton High School San Jose State University (BS) |
| Occupation |
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Webster Lincoln (born February 15, 1987) is an American data scientist, digital pathology entrepreneur, and politician who has served as Mayor of East Palo Alto, California since December 2025, and as a member of the City Council since December 2024. [1] He is the co-founder and CEO of DigPath Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven digital pathology company.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Lincoln was born in Oakland, California, in 1987 and raised in East Palo Alto, with periods spent at Moffett Field Naval Air Station and Naval Air Station Lemoore due to his father's military service.[2] He comes from a multigenerational East Palo Alto family with a history of public service. His grandmother Katherine Loudd managed the Palo Alto Park Mutual Water Company for approximately 30 years, while his mother Niambi Lincoln served as Director of the East Palo Alto Sanitary District in the 1990s.[3] His sister, Jamila Reinhardt, is a member of the United States women's national rugby union team, and his cousin, Kevin Lincoln, served as Mayor of Stockton, California from 2020 to 2024 and is a candidate for California's 9th congressional district in the 2026 election.
As a teenager, Lincoln co-founded Designs à la Mode, a jewelry company, with business partner Lapria Kelly and Aimee Escobar. In 2003, at age 16, he was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).[4]
Lincoln attended Menlo-Atherton High School, where he played varsity football and competed in shot put and discus throw for the track and field team. He was also a member of the robotics team that won the regional championship and placed third nationally at the FIRST Robotics Competition in 2005.[5] He earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology with minors in chemistry and biological science from San Jose State University. He attended the Master of Science program in biological science with a concentration in physiology at San Jose State University before leaving to pursue his professional career.[6]
Career
[edit | edit source]Scientific career
[edit | edit source]While in graduate school, Lincoln began his research career as a Student Associate at SRI International in the Biosciences Division's Center for Neuroscience from 2012 to 2016, focusing on sleep neurobiology and electroencephalogram studies.[7] His work contributed to peer-reviewed publications on Huntington's disease research[8] and hypocretin/orexin antagonist studies.[9]
He subsequently worked as a Scientist II at Merck Research Laboratories (2016–2017) and as a Scientist at SanBio (2017–2019). From 2019 to 2023, Lincoln served as a Data Scientist in the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Genentech, specializing in digital pathology and personalized healthcare.[10] His work at Genentech included machine learning applications for cancer biomarker discovery[11] and lupus nephritis histological feature analysis.[12]
In 2023, Lincoln worked as a Data Scientist for the California Department of Public Health, analyzing COVID-19 vaccine and mpox vaccine distribution.[13]
Business ventures
[edit | edit source]In May 2023, Lincoln co-founded DigPath Inc. with Dr. Inema Orukari, a physician-scientist specializing in biomedical engineering.[14] The company develops cloud-based digital pathology platforms utilizing artificial intelligence for diagnostic analysis. DigPath was accepted into the University of California Berkeley SkyDeck's Pad-13 incubator program in 2024 and raised angel funding in 2025.
Political career
[edit | edit source]Early campaigns
[edit | edit source]Lincoln first ran for East Palo Alto City Council in November 2020, finishing fourth with 2,929 votes, 69 votes behind the third-place winner.[15] Following the election, he filed a lawsuit alleging his closest opponent violated election laws by campaigning within 100 feet of a voting center and offering free tacos to voters on election day from the same location. While the judge found that campaigning did occur within 100 feet of a vote-by-mail drop box and that the ballot drop box was moved after San Mateo County election officials received a complaint, the court dismissed the case in March 2021, determining that San Mateo County elections officials were at fault, and that there was no intentional violation of election laws by the candidates. [16]
In the November 2022 election, Lincoln again narrowly lost, finishing third with approximately 795 votes, 19 votes behind the second-place winner in a race for two seats.[17]
2024 election and council service
[edit | edit source]Lincoln won election to the City Council in November 2024, placing third in a nine-candidate race for three seats with 2,251 votes (15.53%).[18] He was sworn in on December 17, 2024.
On the council, Lincoln has advocated for reviewing the city's inclusionary zoning ordinance, modernizing building code enforcement systems, and expanding affordable housing.[19] His policy platform emphasizes affordable housing expansion, youth empowerment through after-school programs, economic development, and environmental sustainability initiatives.
Lincoln serves as a board member for the Bay Area Water Supply & Conservation Agency,[20] RethinkWaste,[21] and the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, positions he assumed in March 2025 and December 2024 respectively.
Mayoral tenure
[edit | edit source]Lincoln was selected as mayor during the East Palo Alto City Council reorganization meeting in December 2025, succeeding Martha Barragan. His appointment marked a departure from the city’s traditional seniority-based rotation for mayoral selection.[22]
Community involvement
[edit | edit source]Lincoln has been active in advocating for the independence of the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, opposing the district's absorption by the City of East Palo Alto.[23] Despite opposition, the district was dissolved and became a subsidiary of the city in October 2024 after more than 80 years of independent operation.[24] Lincoln currently serves on the East Palo Alto Sanitary District Board of Directors, a position he assumed in December 2024.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official biography at City of East Palo Alto
- DigPath Inc.