Diversity of local elected officials is focus of Tuesday webinar with Bay Area Equity Atlas

by Kiley Russell, Bay City News January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

The Bay Area Equity Atlas, Bay Rising and Urban Habitat are hosting a webinar Tuesday exploring the latest data on the diversity of the region’s elected officials.

For the past several years, the Equity Atlas has researched and compiled the data, which shows that people of color continue to make modest gains in the halls of power but are still generally underrepresented across the Bay Area.

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Kiley Russell, Bay City News

Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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