Tambuzi continued his advocacy work to improve the lives of southeastern San Diegans despite lung cancer diagnosis
Through years of fighting for equity for San Diego’s Black residents, Robert Tambuzi didn’t let anything stop him — not even cancer.
Early on, the Skyline Hills resident recognized the racial disparities evident in his southeastern San Diego neighborhood and began fighting to correct them.“It’s a heavy lift ... but why else would God put us on this planet if it wasn’t to make the world better for people and to be a voice for the voiceless,” Tambuzi told the Union-Tribune in an interview last year.
“I had never met someone with his sense of commitment to being the example of doing the right thing to push people forward, particularly for people of color,” Moss said. “Before people started talking about equity, he was pushing for a level playing field.” After working for former San Diego Councilmember George Stevens in the late 1990s, Tambuzi served as executive director of Harambe House, a treatment center in Encanto that helped boys ages 12 to 17.
“He broke the mold,” she said. “Even during his battle, he never stopped showing up for people, and he wanted to make sure that was his legacy that they never forgot he was there for them.”
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