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Christine Boles for Pacifica City Council District 2 Woman with a big smile, horn-rimmed glasses and a blue and purple cowl-neck sweater. Photo credit: Christine Boles, used with permission.
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Pacifica City Council District 2: Christine Boles

Sustainably building a climate-resilient future has been a priority for Christine Boles both as a small business owner and an elected official. Her architecture firm designed the first net-zero home in Pacifica, and she places environmental stewardship and climate change mitigation atop her agenda in her city council reelection campaign. Christine recognizes that Pacifica faces many of the same challenges as cities across the Bay Area — affordability, creating a more sustainable economy, and budget constraints exacerbated by federal cuts chief among them — and recognizes the need to meet these challenges with an approach befitting a coastal community particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change.

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Orinda City Council at Large: Latika Malkani

Latika is excited to help move Orinda forward on both climate resiliency and climate mitigation.

On the resiliency front, she works to prioritize wildfire mitigation efforts, aiming at clear plans for both residents and the local fire departments (including the collaboration between Orinda and Moraga).

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Jill Hoffman for Sausalito City Council. Woman in an off-white colored suit, smiling with the Sausalito harbor behind her. Photo credit: Jill Hoffman, used with permission.
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Sausalito City Council at Large: Jill Hoffman

Jill Hoffman has served on the Sausalito City Council since November 2014, including two terms as mayor. She is an attorney and former U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General Corps officer, and for her, climate action is “a defining responsibility of leadership.”

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Joan Cox for Sausalito City Council. Woman with black jacket with flowers on it standing on a porch with flowering plants. She is smiling. Photo credit: Joan Cox, used with permission.
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Sausalito City Council at Large: Joan Cox

Joan Cox is a municipal lawyer with 30 years of experience representing cities, counties, schools, and special districts across California—a veteran of local government who has served two terms on the Sausalito City Council (2016–2020 and 2022–present), including terms as mayor in 2018 and 2025, and eight years on the Planning Commis

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East Palo Alto at Large: Deborah Lewis-Virges. Woman in a blue-black blouse, smiling. Photo credit: Deborah Lewis-Virges, used with permission.
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East Palo Alto at Large: Deborah Lewis-Virges

Deborah Lewis-Virges has long been a local leader, both in the congregation she serves as pastor, and in East Palo Alto at large, around issues of social and environmental justice. Running for a seat on the City Council, she wants to apply her experience engaging and motivating community members to the tasks of making housing more affordable, strengthening the local economy, and improving the quality of life for all East Palo Alto residents.

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Silja Paymer forMountain View City Council. Woman in t-shirt standing in a field with flowers behind her. Photo credit: Silja Paymer, used with permission.
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Mountain View City Council At Large: Silja Paymer

As an engineer, mom, and 12-year high school science teacher, Silja Paymer sees every day how deeply climate change impacts our youth and working families. Recognizing that the city is at a pivotal moment in planning for its future, her decision to run for city council is rooted in the vision of Mountain View as “a vibrant model of ecological resilience, climate justice, and car-free multimodal transit.”

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Aysha Pamukcu for South San Francisco District 1. Woman wearing fuchsia-rose blouse, smiling. Photo credit: Aysha Pamucku, used with permission.
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South San Francisco City Council District 1: Aysha Pamukcu

Aysha Pamukcu’s career as a public interest lawyer has always revolved around equity and fairness. While her campaign for the South San Francisco City Council centers housing and affordability as her top priorities, she sees a direct link between a healthy, vibrant community and climate issues. “I think of clean energy within a broader vision of a generative economy, where climate resiliency, including energy solutions, is seen as essential to public health and our economic future of shared prosperity.”

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Ross Bernet for Berkeley City Council district 1. Man in short-sleeved, dark green shirt, leaning against a tree, smiling. Photo credit: Ross Bernet, used with permission.
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Berkeley City Council District 1: Ross Bernet — rank #1

350 Bay Area Action is pleased to endorse Ross Bernet for Berkeley City Council’s District 1.

Ross’ climate plan starts with how Berkeley grows and moves. He wants denser infill housing that relieves the pressure to develop open space, cuts the energy needed to heat and cool homes, and lets people live closer to jobs, transit, and daily needs. As he notes, California’s largest source of emissions is transportation — so Ross wants to reduce vehicle miles traveled by making it safe and easy to get around on foot, bike, or public transit, including building out safe-street infrastructure for Berkeley’s most vulnerable road users.

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