Elected Officials
Mayor Nick Pilch
School Board President Kim Trutane
School Board member Jacob Clark
School Board member Brian Doss
School Board member Sara Hinkley
Councilmember Pete Maass
Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson
Organizations
Berkeley Albany Emeryville 
Community Leaders
Eveline Shen -- Voter Choice Albany co-founder, Executive Director of Forward Together
Farid Javandel -- Former Mayor, Transportation Commissioner
Paul Black -- Former School Board President
Charlie Blanchard -- Former School Board President
Patricia Low -- Former School Board President
Ross Stapleton-Gray -- Former School Board Vice President
Jim Lindsay -- Former School Board member, Charter Review Committee member, Voter Choice Albany co-founder, public school teacher
Lisa Schneider -- Charter Review Committee member
Harry Chomsky -- Charter Review Committee member
Jennifer Radics-Johnson -- Former Charter Review Committee member, Albany Democratic Club founder
Gabriel Baty -- Former Charter Review Committee member, Albany Democratic Club Treasurer
Preston Jordan -- Former Charter Review Committee member, Transportation Commissioner, Former Waterfront Committee member, Voter Choice Albany co-founder, Albany Democratic Club Board member, City Council candidate
Chris Kent -- Planning and Zoning Commissioner
Ian MacLeod -- Planning and Zoning Commissioner
David Arkin -- Former Planning and Zoning Commissioner
Ken McCroskey -- Transportation Commissioner
Robert del Rosario -- Transportation Commissioner
John Miki -- Former Transportation Commissioner
Julia Chang Frank -- Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commissioner, Voter Choice Albany co-founder
Bryan Marten -- Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commissioner, Albany Democratic Club President, public school teacher
Ben Noble -- Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commissioner
Hillary Sardiñas -- Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commissioner
Greg Downs -- Social and Economic Justice Commissioner, Professor of History, University of California, Davis
Bart Grossman -- Social and Economic Justice Commissioner, Former Charter Review Committee member,
Brian Beall -- Former Social and Economic Justice Commissioner, Albany Democratic Club Vice President
Nick Peterson -- Climate Action Committee member
Max Wei -- Climate Action Committee member
Dan Lieberman -- Former Climate Action Committee member
Stephanie Sala -- Economic Development Committee member, Owner, Five Little Monkeys
Aaron Tiedemann -- Economic Development Committee member, Albany Democratic Club Secretary, City Council candidate
Francesco Papalia -- Former Waterfront Development Committee member, Realtor
Andrew Tang -- Voter Choice Albany co-founder, planner and manager at BART
Academic
Rich DeLeon -- retired professor of political science, San Francisco State University
Albany Residents (alphabetical by last name)
Jim Acock -- 35 year Albany homeowner and volunteer in the Albany CARES and shower programs.
Fatima Angeles
Ozlem Ayduk -- UC Berkeley professor and chair-holder
Karen Badenfort
Holly Bartling
Elizabeth Friedman Branoff
Carol S Camlin -- associate professor, UCSF
Cathy Cha -- foundation president and Albany resident for nearly 20 years
Jean Cheng
Isabela & Raymond Colmenar
David Danby -- Albany resident for 39 years, homeowner for 37 years and now retired from Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Phi Do-Lui
Cory Dostie - CART Captioner for Disabled Access
John Erickson -- home improvement professional
Marta Folkman -- retired biomedical electronic technician
Michael James
Dan Johnson -- buildings consultant
Carl Kelly -- small business owner
Deb Lee
Jessica Lindsay -- math tutor, student at CSU East Bay
Rebecca Long
Earl Lui
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- Albany resident for 17 years
Dara O'Rourke - UC Berkeley professor and Albany resident for nearly 20 years
Phil Obbard
Payal Sampat -- AUSD parent and PTA Board member
Daniel Schmidt
Jodi Raggio Stark -- Pediatric physical therapist
Jason Tang
Marta Tobey -- Albany homeowner since 1976, retired musician
Julie Ann Winkelstein -- librarian and resident of Albany for more than 35 years
Ken & Kim Wolf
(All individual's affiliations provided for identification and do not indicate organizational endorsement.)
In addition, the League of Women Voters of the United States "supports electoral methods that:
- Encourage voter participation and voter engagement
- Encourage those with minority opinions to participate, including under-represented communities
- Maximize effective votes/minimize wasted votes
- Promote sincere voting over strategic voting
- Implement alternatives to plurality voting
The League supports electoral systems that elect policymaking bodies – legislatures, councils, commissions, and boards – that proportionally reflect the people they represent."
The above League position was considered at its 2020 convention. The position was adopted with 93% of the delegates in support.
The Sierra Club's position on voting systems states:
"The single-round, winner-take-all political process has problems. We support alternative electoral methods that better reflect the diversity of public opinion."
Albany's current election method does not accord with any of the above. Ranked choice for Albany accords with all of the above.