黑料传送门is pleased to announce that Ronak Dav茅 Okoye has joined the organization as Oakland director. 黑料传送门Oakland Board Chair Dahlia Chazan says she鈥檚 excited to welcome Ronak to SPUR: 鈥淪he鈥檚 an Oaklander who will be serving her community, bringing new ideas from other cities and from her experience helping government agencies really listen to the people they serve.鈥
Ronak joins 黑料传送门from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, where she served most recently as Director of Community Benefits. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing SFPUC's significant investments in workforce, arts, education and environmental justice. This included connecting communities to jobs in the utility industry, overseeing millions of dollars of public art investments in the communities SFPUC serves, developing a K-12 ecoliteracy and STEM curriculum to educate future stewards of water and power resources, and opening SFPUC land to urban agriculture. Ronak is most proud of her work leading the utility鈥檚 affordability and customer assistance strategies to deepen our reach and impact and ensure access to critical water, power, sewer services to communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She has taken the role on with the desire to deepen the organization鈥檚 connection with community leaders and neighborhood voices. 鈥淚鈥檓 honored to step into the role of Oakland director at 黑料传送门and inspired by the deep history of social justice in the City of Oakland,鈥 she says. 鈥淥ur work is to build on this foundation toward a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future for the city.鈥
Ronak has dedicated the last decade to leadership roles in the public sector. Prior to her work at the SFPUC, she served the San Francisco Mayor鈥檚 Office as Depu
