Majority Whip, California State Senate, 2020-present

Senator, California State Senate, District 9, 2016-present

Candidate, California State Senate, District 9, 2020

Assembly Member, California State Assembly, District 14, 2008-2014

City Councilmember, City of Berkeley, 1984-1992

Chair, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

Member, Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee

Member, Environmental Quality Committee

Member, Governance and Finance Committee

Member, Housing Committee

Chair, Joint Legislative Budget Committee

Member, Public Safety Committee

Member, Select Committee on Hydrogen Energy

Member, Select Committee on Ports and Goods Movement

Member, Senate Select Committee on Bay Area Public Transit

Former Member, Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Insurance Committee, California State Assembly

Former Chair, Public Safety Committee, California State Senate

Former Member, Select Committee on Career Technology and the New Economy, California State Senate

Former Member, Select Committee on Women, Work and Families, California State Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee 5 on Corrections, Public Safety and the Judiciary, California State Senate

Former Member, Transportation and Housing Committee, California State Senate

Senior Policy Fellow, Energy and Transportation Institutes, University of California, Davis, present

Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, present

United States Director, Climate Group, 2004-2007

United States Director/International Coordinator, ICLEI Cities for Climate Protection, 1994-2004

Field Manager, Barbara Lee for United States Congress, 2002

Coordinator, Loni Hancock for State Assembly, 2002

Administrative Director, Graduate Assembly, University of California, Berkeley, 1981-1989

Board Member, Community Conservation Centers Incorporated, present

Founder, Local Governments for Sustainability, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, present

Member, National Organization of Women, present

Member, Western Legislative Forestry Task Force, present

Founder, Women in Power Political Action Committee, present

Former Member, Advisory Committee, Energy Commission's Climate Change

Former Member, Alameda County Stop Waste Board

Former Member, Alameda County Training & Employment Board

Member, Alameda Democratic Club

Board Member, Berkeley Film Foundation

Board Member, Center for EcoLiteracy

Board Member, David Brower Center

Former Member, East Bay Regional Park District Board

Member, East Bay Women's Political Caucus

Member, El Cerrito Democratic Club

Member, Metropolitcan Greater Oakland Democratic Club

Former Member, San Francisco Clean Technology Task Force

Member, Stonewall Democratic Club

Member, Wellstone Democratic Club

Board Member, Youth Alive, Oakland

Board Member, East Bay Regional Parks District, 2006-2008

Awards:

Courageous Leadership Award by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Favorite Book:

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert & The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve Fraser

Favorite Musician:

Cyndi Lauper, Sarah Vaughan, Rhianna, Annie Lennox, Sonny Rollins, Bill Charlap, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Amy Winehouse

Favorite Quote:

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places- and there are so many- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction." Howard Zinn

Spouse's Occupation:

Public service retiree