As a 27–year resident of West Oakland, I know first hand there is more we must do to make our community safer. All Oakland residents deserve to feel safe on the street and in their homes and neighborhoods. I will recruit more police officers for street patrols and expand support to neighborhood Crime Prevention Councils. Our children and youth need safe school sites and additional programs that teach conflict resolution, substance abuse prevention and basic social values like respect, honesty, sharing, and peace. I will expand job training, after school, and violence-prevention programs to keep our youth off the streets and out of trouble. I will help coordinate the community’s safety priorities with police efforts, code enforcement and violence prevention programs to achieve real community policing.

I established the Campbell Village Teen Center, with a second new Center coming in the Hoover Foster area that will be planned by youth. We’ve created jobs for youth at Youth Radio and established a pilot project in Restorative Justice at Cole Middle School with exciting results: youth who feel empowered to solve their problems without physical fighting. We need to expand that program to other schools. I have increased youth job training programs and adult soft skill development and job preparation for those coming out of incarceration. I am also working to expand adult literacy programs for those youth who graduated from high school never learning to read..

I’ve brought neighborhood-serving businesses to District 3 by supporting the first credit union near West Oakland BART with an organic co-op market opening nearby, and a great new restaurant on Mandela and 26th, Brown Sugar Kitchen. We attracted and opened a Whole Foods at the Lake. I will continue to work on rehabilitating key assets such as the Fox Theater, the Army Base, and West Oakland Train Station. We need a strong business attraction initiative to fill vacant office, retail and industrial spaces. Working with local merchants, I helped Koreatown businesses form a Business Improvement District (BID) and am supporting the establishment of three more BIDs for Uptown, Downtown and Old Oakland, which will expand resources for safety, cleanliness, beautification and neighborhood revitalization. We have also laid the groundwork for a significant retail development along Broadway uptown.

I improved many of our neighborhood parks, including Bertha, Cleveland Cascades, Lafayette, Sensory Gardens, and Willow parks, supported the creation of the new dog park at Mosswood and am working on two other dog Parks. We established a leashed dog walk on Mandela Parkway. I am working on establishing responsible zoning uptown which includes part of Lake Merritt to assure that the Lake is kept open and enjoyable for the many users from throughout the city. I will continue my focus on clean air and buffered interfaces between residents and industry. I will focus on raising funds to Phase 2 of Raimondi park improvements and establishing an organic garden at Fitzgerald park. We will continue to implement district-wide tree plantings..

Community Choice Aggregation is a priority, working with Berkeley and Emeryville to purchase green power (power from more renewable sources than is currently provided). This will spark the need for more solar and wind production, more green collar jobs in manufacture, assembly and installation, while we reduce our dependence on oil and polluting energy sources.

The West Oakland Transit Village is in beginning stages of development. Increasing density on the east side of the BART station is our goal while protecting the successful less dense village-like neighborhood to the west of the BART station. We have funds set aside to implement a Blues Walk of Fame on 7th St. to commemorate the vital culture of the neighborhood’s history.

I take my position as a woman in a leadership role on the Council very seriously, and have worked closely with the women’s community to pass a ‘Bubble Ordinance’ to protect women’s access to reproduction healthcare without harassment.

Create more quality housing, including a variety of homes and apartments types for all incomes; offering a broad range of social and economic diversity; in neighborhoods that are attractive, convenient, and safe; and that are provided with effective supportive services and civic amenities.

Preserve the city's critically needed supply of rental housing from speculative condominium conversion; provide special protections to maintain the affordability of rental apartments, assure a strong assistance program for households forced from their homes by condominium conversion.

Provide meaningful protections for seniors and disabled households to enable these valuable residents to remain in their homes and apartments free of exorbitant housing cost increases or threats of eviction.

Strengthen the city's rent control laws to provide effective mediation of disputes; maintenance of the linkage of rent increases to the regional consumer price index; protection against unwarranted evictions; limitation of speculative investment pass-through to tenants; and a more equitable rent adjustment process, with legal and procedural assistance for both tenants and landlords.