The first dinner to bring the new tech workers and old-line Mission residents together  âwas sort of heavy and charged,â  said Chris Murphy, a white, 20-something tech startup founder. His  cohort, a middle-aged Latina with a long record of community activism agreed. At one point during that October dinner, held at Casa Sanchez, a young, tech worker offered a conciliatory opinion saying, âWe're all human.â In the seat right next to him a longtime Mission resident said simply: âI'm f----- pissed,â recounted Murphy. âThat was like the first hour of this first dinner,â said Murphy. âWhat was heartening is that in the next hour everybody was talking to everybody.â Murphy along with former Planning Commissioner and District Supervisor Christina Olague are the creators of a new organization called Engage SF that aims to bring together two disparate communities: longtime neighborhood residents and newly-arrived tech workers. The group, which ...
