Charlene Wang brings a wealth of public service experience along with the perspective of an East Bay native to her campaign for reelection to Oakland’s city council. After graduating from Columbia University—with a degree in environmental engineering—and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, she stayed on the East Coast for some time, crafting health care, transportation, and housing policy for local elected officials and the federal government; this period also included a stint at the Environmental Protection Agency, where she worked in pursuit of environmental justice.