Increasing the racial diversity of local elected leaders in the Bay Area will require a range of policy changes and grassroots organizational support in the coming years, according to a panel of community activists and political candidates who met Thursday to discuss newly published data on the topic.
The data, released in late August by the Bay Area Equity Atlas, shows the proportion of people of color holding local elected positions increased from 26 percent in 2018 to about 34 percent after the 2020 election cycle.
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