Outside of work, Rebecca is a public transit and smart growth advocate. In 2008, Rebecca chaired the No on KK campaign committee in Berkeley, helping to defeat this anti-transit ballot initiative with 77% of the vote. She writes a blog, Living in the O, which focuses on Oakland community, politics, and planning, and she can often be found covering meetings at Oakland City Hall, the AC Transit boardroom, and other regional agencies. Rebecca serves as an associate member for the 16th Assembly District on the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee and was recently elected to serve as a 16th Assembly District delegate to the California Democratic Party.

Rebecca graduated with a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she co-founded the school’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the student-run, harm reduction based Drug Resource Center. She worked with Grassroots Campaigns after graduating, leading an office that raised more than one million dollars for the Democratic National Committee.

A lifelong progressive committed to social and economic justice, Jason got an early start in politics.  Originally from Washington, DC, Jason began his political career on Capitol Hill working for the late Senator Ted Kennedy in 2002.  He moved to California in 2003 for college and made history when he was elected to the City of Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board in 2004 at the age of 19, becoming the youngest person elected in the city’s history.  Representing approximately 100,000 constituents, he worked to advance the cause of affordable housing for low income and working families.

Professionally, Jason currently works as the Communications Director for Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan.

Jason has also worked as a community organizer for a children’s literacy non-profit, was a founding member of Citizen Hope, and has been active in the national Young Elected Officials Network through People for the American Way.

Jason earned his B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Elected in November 2008, Igor Tregub serves as a Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner. He chairs the Committee on Budget and Personnel and sits on three other committees, through which he ensures that tenants in Berkeley receive fair rents, strong eviction and habitability protections are enforced, and renters and landlords can receive recourse through dispute adjudication. Mr. Tregub is also the former chair of and current commissioner on the Berkeley Commission on Labor, through which he led the passage of the City of Berkeley’s Sweatfree Procurement Ordinance.

Professionally, Mr. Tregub is an engineer with the Department of Energy. He conducts oversight of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and has completed assignments with the agency’s nonproliferation and intergovernmental affairs divisions in Washington, DC. He serves on the advisory board of the New Leaders Council’s San Francisco Chapter and Bay Area Regional Council of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, and chairs the Resolution Committee of the California Young Democrats. Mr. Tregub graduated from UC Berkeley in 2008 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Political Science and is currently pursuing a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Ipsheeta also serves on the local boards of the New Leaders Council, Society of Women Engineers, and Young Women Social Entrepreneurs. Ipsheeta practices yoga, teaches swimming, and is constantly learning various forms of dance in her spare time. Ipsheeta holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley. Go Bears!

Currently Andy works for the Courage Campaign political issues committee. In addition to his position in EBYD Andy serves as the Communications Director of the California Young Democrats LGBT Caucus.

Richard serves on the Board of Directors for Attitudinal Healing Connection, an organization working to break the cycle of violence by supporting creative and educational programs. In addition, Richard serves on Oakland’s Community Development Block Grant Board District 3, Dogtown Neighborhood Association, and West End Commons Home Owners Association, as a co-founder of the Oakland Rainbow PAC, and is an elected delegate to the California Democratic Party.

Richard earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from California State University, Los Angeles, becoming the first person in his family to graduate from college.

Jennifer is a strong advocate on behalf of her community because of her experiences in a working class family, raised by a single immigrant mother. She worked her way through college at U.C. San Diego where she led campaigns to expand access to higher education and improving campus safety policies by organizing events to prevent violence against women.

After college she was elected to serve as the President of the United States Student Association, the country’s oldest and largest national student organization. At USSA, she managed over a million-dollar budget and represented more than 2.5 million college students across the country. As the chief spokesperson, Jennifer fought for access to higher education, testified before the United States Senate, and served on the Commission on the Future of Higher Education.

In 2008, Jennifer volunteered for Senator Obama’s Presidential campaign. Her efforts won her a seat as a California’s only Korean-American DNC delegate, as well as the youngest Korean-American delegate at the DNC Convention.

Frieda is an elected delegate to the California State Democratic Central Committee and state Senator Loni Hancock’s representative on the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee.  She has been an active board member of the National Women’s Political Caucus – Alameda North Chapter for three years, chairing its Communications Committee for two, and is involved in a myriad of host committees, including the Young Professionals Finance Committee for San Francisco DA Kamala Harris’s run for Attorney General.  In the summer of 2009, Supervisor Keith Carson appointed Frieda to be District 5’s (Oakland, Piedmont, Berkeley) Commissioner on the Alameda County Human Relations Commission.

Frieda graduated cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Political Science and double minors in History, and Women, Culture and Development.  She interned for the National Coalition of History in Washington, DC and studied in South Africa.