CRC Pictures

Dec. 27, 2021: Final Maps certification & submission day (yes, two days after Christmas!)
We rotated serving as chair and vice-chair and I happened to be vice-chair at the time, so got to sign the accompanying cover letter. Chair Isra Ahmad was our youngest commissioner and I was the 2nd oldest.
Lovingly baked by one of our contractors, Katy Manoff
Got almost every commissioner and staff member’s autograph! That’s the final Congressional map.
CRC billboard in Oakland, near my house
Actually, there was no budget for snack food, somebody just brought and donated the PB&J.

Deep, subconscious redistricting in a coat and tie
When I applied to the CRC I was very much imagining cool trips all over the state–but along came COVID and we got endlessly Zoomified instead!
Taking my vow of office via Zoom, Aug. 26, 2020. Somehow it looks like I’m petting Monarch, the bear on our state flag.
For the sometime in-person meetings we mostly gathered in a conference room on the second floor of the Department of Rehabilitation building a few blocks from the Capitol. However, sadly, there was never a time when all 14 of us were present together.
Spent quite a bit of time on Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor train, travelling between Oakland and Sacramento
Celebrating in downtown Sac after completing our final maps
It’s a wrap: four maps, 176 election districts, zero maps lawsuits. All the best to the 2030 Commission!