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Surprising numbers show a critical lack of diversity among elected officials in the Bay Area, according to a report recently released by the Bay Area Equity Atlas, an effort focused on quantifying racial and economic inequality in the region.

Sixty percent of the population is made up of people of color while they hold just 29 percent of top elected posts.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.