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Rebecca Saltzman
District Board Member
Oakland, California
Rebecca Saltzman was elected to the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
District Board in November 2012. She chairs the Board Labor Negotiations
Review Committee and the BART-AC Transit Interagency Liaison
Committee, and serves on the Environmental/Sustainability Committee.
In addition to her service on the transit board, Saltzman works as the
government affairs manager for the California League of Conservation
Voters. Saltzman served as vice-chair of the Oakland bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee
from 2011 to 2013, where she advised the city on pedestrian, bicycle, and infrastructure policy. She
graduated with a B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. @rebeccaforbart

Jordan Sauers
City Councilmember
Northglenn, Colorado

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Jordan Sauers is member of the Northglenn City Council. During her
tenure, she had held numerous fellowships, including ones in the
governor’s office and the Colorado secretary of state’s office. She has
extensive experience working with nonprofit and political organizations,
serving on various appointed commissions and on the boards of
organizations including the Denver Commission on Aging, the Colorado
Collection Board Agency, the Colorado Board of Marriage and Family Therapist Examiners, and
Colorado Common Cause. She is a founding board member of Latino Young Philanthropists and
ACCESO (Spanish Language Voting Advisory Committee). She is a Danie