Malasiqui, Pangasinan-born Lydia Pomposo is the third of 11 children of a WWII veteran USAF retiree, she lived at Clark Air Base and attended American schools in the Philippines. She attended Lowell HS in SF, Heald Business College & Skyline College.

In 2016, she retired from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after 40 years. She had held the position of Section Chief, Property Management, responsible for the REOs (real estate-owned) or foreclosures in Northern California and Northern Nevada. After Property Management was outsourced, Lydia accepted a lateral position as a Veterans Service Representative at the Oakland Regional Office.

As Women Veterans Coordinator, she interviewed claimants for PTSD and other medical issues, gaining perspective on the complex situations women similarl face in intimate partner and family abuse.

Lydia and husband Ed Pomposo, a US Air Force veteran, have four children and five grandchildren.

She is cctive with the Mater Dolorosa Church ministries and Second Harvest Food Bank. In September 2022, she was appointed as a Cultural Arts Commissioner for the City of SSF. She is currently serving on the Age-Friendly Task Force of SSF.