Janani Ramachandran is a public servant, attorney, and mother who believes in the power of storytelling to shine a light on Oakland’s cultural landscape. A professional R&B singer and student of classical Indian music, Janani brings
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.
350 Bay Area Action is proud to endorse Margo Meiman for the Pacifica City Council.
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).
For more than two decades, Paul Donahue has served his neighbors in Mountain View as a member of city boards and commissions, advocating for a livable, sustainable, and affordable city. Now, as a candidate for City Council, he aims to bring his experience as a collaborative leader, along with an engineering mindset, to address the challenges the City currently faces.
Ida Rose Sylvester brings years of community organizing experience and environmental advocacy to her campaign for Mountain View City Council. Her work on the board of Carbon-Free Mountain View and as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission has focused on raising public awareness o
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.”
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
A longtime Foster City resident and current city councilmember, Phoebe Shin Venkat views strong climate policy as vital for a “coastal community…on the front lines of sea level rise.”
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.
