Oakland is ALL IN for Kamala!

For Immediate Release: UPDATED: SEN. SKINNER JOINS SPEAKER LINEUP

Press contact: Michele Magar / Mobile: 415.793.4144 / tanyaprojectmlp@gmail.com

Speakers Available for Interview [bios below]

Kamala’s Hometown Event @ 10 a.m. - 10:45am Friday 8.2.24 [RAIN OR SHINE]

Preservation Park in Oakland: 1233 Preservation Park Way [outdoors near fountain] SITE IS ADA-Compliant

EVENT DETAILS: https://indivisibleeb.org/events/

       “Oakland is ALL IN for Kamala!” Media Event in Oakland at 10am Friday 8.2.24

Oakland is Kamala’s home town, and Indivisible East Bay is holding a media event on Friday to embrace and endorse our Nation’s soon-to-be first woman President! The outdoor event is wheelchair-accessible, and will include American Sign Language interpreters, and now features just-confirmed speaker Senator Nancy Skinner.

WHEN: 10am -10:45am Friday, August 2, 2024

WHERE: Preservation Park in Oakland: 1233 Preservation Park Way, RAIN OR SHINE (outdoors in front of the bandstand next to the large fountain in the center of the 2-block park).

WHO: Local grassroots leaders and Senator Nancy Skinner working hard to persuade voters nationwide to vote for America’s’ future, because “We Won’t Go Back” to the extremist policies of the prior president’s Administration.

FULL SPEAKER BIOS BELOW.

OAKLAND IS ALL IN FOR KAMALA!

Join California State Senator Nancy Skinner and Oakland activists holding an outdoor media event at Oakland’s beautiful Preservation Park from 10am - 10:45am on Friday, August 2, 2024. Oakland is VP Harris’s home town; so we know her best, and want to tell fellow voters why we enthusiastically endorse our soon-to-be first woman President.

In addition to Senator Skinner, the speaker line-up also includes Katherine Weinstein Miller, whom VP Harris hired when she was District Attorney in San Francisco. Ms. Miller served under then-DA Harris as Assistant DA, and filled various roles in the Office of the DA until the end of 2019. Her final position there was Chief of Programs and Initiatives, leading policy and program development for the DA’s alternative justice programs and strategies.

“We must resoundingly defeat Trump and thwart his and the MAGA movement’s effort to take the country backward and end the republic as we know it. Electing Harris to the presidency will show that Americans support a free and inclusive society,” said Larry Baskett of Indivisible East Bay .

That sentiment is shared by grassroots leaders who will be speaking at Friday’s press event.

SPEAKER BIOS:

California State Senator Nancy Skinner: A social justice advocate, clean energy and climate change trailblazer and accomplished legislator, Nancy Skinner was first elected to the state Senate in 2016 after completing three terms in the state Assembly. Senator Skinner currently serves as chair of the Senate Housing Committee and of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus, and is chair emeritus of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. Her district includes Oakland, Kamala’s home town.

Katy Weinstein Miller is the Chief Probation Officer for San Francisco’s Juvenile Probation Department, where she has served since January 2020. She came to Juvenile Probation following 12 years at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where she was hired by District Attorney Kamala Harris in 2007. In the DA’s office, she served as an Assistant District Attorney, Managing Attorney, and ultimately Chief of Programs and Initiatives, leading policy and program development for the DA’s alternative justice programs and strategies. In this capacity, she oversaw the DA’s Juvenile, Mental Health and Alternative Courts Units, and implemented nationally recognized programs focused on restorative justice, young adults, and alternatives to traditional prosecution. Prior to joining the DA's Office, Katy worked at both the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice and the Delancey Street Foundation on a major initiative to reform San Francisco’s juvenile justice system. In her early days as a lawyer, Katy represented children as a deputy public defender at the San Diego Public Defender's Office.

Igor Tregub was elected to the Berkeley City Council on May 28, 2024, following a 20+ year career of public service at all levels of government, including eight years on the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, twelve local commission appointments, and oversight of a multimillion-dollar federal budget. He also chairs or has chaired the Alameda County Democratic Party, California Democratic Party Environmental Caucus, and Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. Professionally, he serves as the Strategic Partnerships Director and Senior Policy Advisor at Reimagine Power, a women-owned boutique consultancy providing legislative and regulatory advocacy for renewable energy solutions benefitting renters and all who’ve been historically left out of the clean energy transition. Outside of his local and state advocacy, he is organizing to bring distributed solar and storage and energy democracy through the deployment of an Energy Security Marshall Plan to his homeland of Ukraine. He holds an MS from Duke University and a BS/BA from UC Berkeley (GO BEARS!).

Precious Green is the Director of Community at Manny's, a civic engagement and community gathering space in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. She has been committed to community building and empowerment for over 20 years, first as an attorney and more recently as a community engagement strategist. A graduate of The American University in Washington, DC and the University of Georgia School of Law, Precious is a proud third generation member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She is honored to call Madam Vice President Harris her soror and is an active member of Alpha Nu Omega chapter in Oakland.

Ogie Strogatz is a grassroots organizer and leader from Walnut Creek who fights for social change from inside and outside established systems. She is active in a number of groups, including Indivisible ReSisters Walnut Creek, 350 Contra Costa, the Center for Common Ground, and several Democratic clubs.

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