Sergio Lopez is an author and Vice Mayor for the City of Campbell, CA.

With longtime roots in his community and a lifelong commitment to service, he has worked at all levels of government, from local on to the White House. In 2020, in a historic victory that received national media attention, he was elected to City Council. A regional leader on environmental and transit issues, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and as Chair of the Valley Transportation Authority.

An author and historian, his writing has been published in TIME, Teen Vogue, America, Scalawag, Sojourners, Soft Punk, National Catholic Reporter, Geez, and Hanif Abdurraqib's 68to05 project. He is a monthly columnist for the Campbell Press. Lopez serves on the Board of Directors for the Children's Creativity Museum and on the Board of Trustees for Junior State of America Foundation. His first book, a work of American history, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press.

Lopez is a proud child of immigrants and was the first in his family to graduate college. He attended Yale University as a Questbridge Scholar, received his M.A. at Duke Divinity School, and attends the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.