I'm a California native who has resided in Emeryville since 2010, where I live with my husband and two children. I've cultivated a career as an established media professional with over 20 years of experience producing content for outlets such as Comedy Central, MTV and PBS. I was first elected to Emeryville City Council in 2014, and elected again in 2018. I am proud to be serving my second term as Mayor.

Steven Golubchik is Vice Chairman and Head of Capital Markets with Newmark, and leads the Office, Industrial and Life Science Capital Markets Practice Group for Northern California. Previously he was a senior managing director and co-office head for the San Francisco office of HFF, where he was responsible for managing the growth of all the capital markets service lines throughout Northern California in conjunction with overseeing the sale of institutional-grade investment property sales concentrating on office, industrial and life science assets located throughout the western United States. Steven has closed more than $25 billion in transactions encompassing more than 50 million square feet throughout the West Coast during his career.

Andy leads the organization in shaping its next phase of EBALDC’s work in shaping healthy neighbourhoods. Andy has over 30 years of experience in affordable housing and community development. Prior to joining EBALDC, Andy served as the Senior Vice President of Real Estate Development. Under his leadership, Eden Housing greatly expanded their new construction pre-development pipeline, recapitalized and renovated their existing portfolio, grew the organization's financial reserves and extended its impact by opening development offices in Monterey and San Diego, California. In addition to his role at Eden Housing, Andy was a Senior Banker for JP Morgan Chase Community Development Banking. He also served as Vice President, Real Estate Development for Citizens Housing Corporation, and as a Director of Real Estate Development at BRIDGE Housing Corporation, and as a Vice President at Community Preservation and Development Corporation in Washington, DC. Andy also has significant real estate lending and finance experience having spent six years at Fannie Mae’s American Communities Fund, which financed affordable housing development, provided joint venture equity for workforce housing, and loans to local governments. Before his work in affordable housing, Andy practiced law at non-profit organizations in California and Philadelphia. Andy continues to be active in community development, serving on the Board of Directors for Community Vision, and the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California.to expanding our leadership and deepening our impact in building healthy neighbourhoods across Oakland and the East Bay.

Heather Hood is vice president and Northern California market leader for Enterprise Community Partners Inc. She directs Enterprise’s programmatic work in the region to ensure low- and moderate-income residents live in quality homes that are affordable and connected to opportunity. These efforts include generating policy and funding innovations to address the region’s tremendous affordable housing needs, improving the buildings and services in public housing, preparing regions to be ready and resilient for disasters, and increasing local, regional and state resources for affordable housing preservation and production. Heather joined Enterprise in 2011, and since then, her pursuits to advance solutions include co-authoring The Elephant in the Region: How Bay Metro Can Lead a Bold Regional Housing Agenda and serving in CASA’s production work group to develop a potential regionwide inclusionary zoning framework and to create a plan to utilize public land. She also conceived Enterprise’s technical assistance approach around the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program leading to more $400 million in state resources to affordable homes and co-chaired Oakland’s Housing Cabinet to determine more practical and impactful solutions. Prior to joining Enterprise, Heather worked at The San Francisco Foundation as the Initiative Officer managing the Great Communities Collaborative where she was instrumental in the development of the $85 million Bay Area Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Fund. She was a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Department of City and Regional Planning and a co-founder and director of its Center for Community Innovation. She co-authored The Future of Infill Housing in California: Opportunities, Potential, Feasibility and Demand for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, which laid the groundwork for the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act. Heather has served on the boards of Transform, the American Institute of Architects and the Center for Urban Family Life. She earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, her master’s degrees in architecture and city planning from University of California, Berkeley and studied urban design and density at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark International Studies.

Dorinda Shipman has dedicated her career to managing and directing site remediation and mitigation at large military bases and Brownfield properties. She manages Langan’s Bay Area environmental practice and co-leads Langan’s Corporate Sustainability Program. Shipman also serves as an Advisory Board Member for the national nonprofit Center for Creative Land Recycling. Shipman is adept at integrating environmental cleanup and mitigation with design and construction for real estate property transfer and redevelopment. She leads soil and groundwater investigation and cleanup, soil gas and vapor intrusion risk assessments, water supply assessment, and dewatering evaluations; provides litigation support; and directs groundwater-flow and fate and transport modeling. She is actively involved with the nonprofit Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) as an Advisory Board member.

Ken Lowney is the Founder and President of Lowney Architecture, a multidisciplinary practice offering architectural, interior, and master planning services. With locations in Oakland and Honolulu, the firm focuses its practice on residential, mixed-use, hospitality and retail projects. In his hometown of Oakland, Ken leads discussions about community development, affordable housing and off-site construction design methods while serving in leadership roles for the Modular Building Institute, SPUR, the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and the Oakland Land Use Committee. Lowney Architecture first made its mark with expertise in urban retail, specifically grocery store design. The firm is now also synonymous with the design and delivery of innovative, prefabricated projects, having designed over 6,000 modular units.

Kurt Chambliss is Executive Vice President of business development for TMC Financing focused on serving small business clients throughout San Francisco’s East Bay. With more than 20 years of SBA 504 lending industry experience, Kurt oversees TMC’s sales team that spreads across 9 geographic territories. Kurt is responsible for ensuring the growth of the company’s portfolio and managing ongoing expansion efforts into emerging markets. Under Kurt’s leadership, TMC Financing has gained significant market share throughout the country. In 2020, TMC ranked the No. 1 SBA 504 lender in the Western Region, helping over 300 small businesses obtain nearly $800 million in total project financing. This has resulted in the creation or retention of approximately 2,000 jobs. Kurt and his team seamlessly guide clients through the loan process helping to secure SBA financing for small businesses and introducing them to the best first mortgage lenders that meet the clients’needs, supporting them through the entire process. Kurt acts as an advocate for small business owners and is passionate about helping small businesses grow and succeed. Kurt joined TMC Financing in 2010 to lead TMC’s San Francisco East Bay office and was promoted to EVP in 2017. He began his banking career at Wells Fargo in 1994, as a business banker where he helped facilitate many SBA 504 loans for businesses. In addition to Wells Fargo, Kurt has also worked for First Republic Bank, Heritage Bank, US Bank and Greater Bay Bank in various business banking roles. Kurt graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with a degree in political science, where he was also a nationally ranked swimmer.

Alicia Guerra has developed a multi-disciplinary practice focused on local, state, and federal land use entitlement and permitting and environmental review for a broad sector of private industry, developers, and public agencies. Ms. Guerra’s practice often involves complex and controversial projects at all levels of the administrative process including due diligence, land use entitlements, development agreements, disposition and development agreements, permitting advice, and counsel for water resources, environmental compliance, and wetlands natural resources. She has handled all aspects of these substantive areas, from advising private and public sector clients regarding the applicability of the law, to guiding clients through a permitting or entitlement process at the local, state or federal level.

Joe is a founder of srmErnst and has over 20-years of real estate experience in development, investment, asset management and finance. Joe joined SRM Associates in 1999 and was the principal in charge of all new development since 2005. Prior to SRM, Joe was a Vice President in Structured Finance with Norwest Bank Minneapolis (prior to acquisition of Wells Fargo) structuring private mortgage and asset-backed securities transactions. Joe was also a Vice President with Cargill Financial Services focused on developing a conduit for acquisition and securitization of subprime residential mortgages, and a Vice President with Piper Jaffray as a structured finance analyst involved in the acquisition, restructuring and fund management of a $1 billion portfolio of distressed residential loans and under-performing CMBS deals. Joe graduated magna cum laude from the University of Saint Thomas receiving his B.A. in Finance and Computer Science. He is a Portfolio Advisor with Inner City Advisors, an Oakland based non-profit small business and jobs advocacy group.

BayRock Multifamily continues to own and develop outstanding, in-fill apartment and condominium properties. The principals of BayRock have over 30 years of real estate development and investment experience. This history includes the development of over 8,000 apartment homes in six western states. Using this extensive experience, the principals are truly focused on prudent management of costs, while delivering above-average economic results for its customer partners. Today BayRock is focused on key, infill, 24 hour urban environments in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our Investment Builder/Developer approach includes the long term ownership and management of extraordinary investments in these great neighborhoods. A BayRock home provides distinct advantages. We only invest in superior locations where it will improve the lifestyle of our residents. Our commitment to quality is unwavering. We strive to provide the best amenities and services that will make the community a vibrant place to live and work with award-winning architects to design homes providing flexible designs for maximum livability.

In addition to 15 years of experience in real estate development, Mr. Babsin is an attorney and CPA. Mr. Babsin holds a BS in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a Master in City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.

Rob Zirkle is the founding principal of brick. Under his guidance the brick team brings a rigorous, value driven design process to a wide variety of project types in architecture, interiors and urban design. Rob leads the firm’s initiatives in design, client satisfaction, new project acquisition and company culture. Channeling Rob’s entrepreneurial approach, brick has grown into a thriving 25 person team with $450m of current projects under construction ranging from commercial office, life science, housing and higher education.

Leo Panian practices from the intersection of seismic engineering, advanced analytics, and new technology, to deliver cost-efficient, high-performance projects for his clients. His career has focused on creating practical and innovative design solutions founded on an expert understanding of structural performance. Leo has led and managed many of Tipping’s ambitious projects, garnering regional and national recognition for structural engineering design excellence. A graduate of UC Berkeley, he joined Tipping in 1997 and was named principal in 2011.

Caroline Guibert Chase practices real estate, development, and land use law, with an emphasis on representing real estate developers in the entitlement of residential, commercial, and institutional development projects. Caroline has a unique multidisciplinary background including architecture, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) consulting, urban planning, and zoning enforcement. She has excelled at helping clients navigate the complex local and state entitlement processes throughout the Bay Area. Caroline has extensive experience with CEQA and has been involved in every step of the preparation of various CEQA documents, including the review of technical studies and the preparation of Environmental Impact Report (EIR)-required project objectives and alternatives. She is particularly well-versed in local and state historic resource issues, which often complicate the CEQA review process by triggering the need for an EIR. Caroline’s involvement and passion for her practice are also evident outside of the firm. Caroline is on the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) Board and Chair of the SFHAC Legislative Committee. Caroline is also a member of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Housing Policy Committee and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).