Meet Jovanka Beckles

Jovanka Beckles is a movement organizer, a former two-term Richmond City Councilmember, a longtime leader in the Richmond Progressive Alliance, a children’s mental health professional, a former candidate for California’s 15th State Assembly district, and a democratic socialist in the tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr. She is running for AC Transit Board in Ward 1 to fight for the labor rights of transit workers and the green, fare-free, universally accessible transit system that the East Bay’s working people deserve.