Sara Brink moved to Oakland in 2013 to pursue a career in filmmaking. After earning her degree in Business Management and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University in Chicago, she found herself working retail sales and barely making ends meet. Her decision to move to California was borne out of a need for a big life change.

Sara's been hustling since she moved here. A self-taught video editor and animator, she developed her skills in filmmaking alongside her skills in organizing. She taught herself to use video editing software by cutting down a livestream from a protest in Ferguson in 2015, which helped protesters there get a restraining order against the police. Even while unemployed, Sara co-founded and organized Bay Area for Bernie in 2015, as well as the non-connected political action committee, Empowering Progressive Initiatives + Candidates, that sprang out of Bay Area for Bernie by legal necessity. 

Even this run for office is a mix of art and politics. While she is currently employed by a digital media brand that makes science education videos, she is participating in a documentary about this campaign run, and about how inaccessible running for office is for people who are just trying to live their lives. 

Center marginalized people.

Listen to Black and Indigenous womxn. 

Repairing harm comes before all other priorities.

Grow strong roots in our communities.

Deepen our commitment to democracy by creating better opportunities for meaningful particpation.

Connect the struggles where we live to struggles around the world.

Reject ideas of safety that come at the expense of our neighbors.

Embrace discomfort.

Use our privileges to punch up.

Government works WITH us, not on our behalf.

Stop voting for the party that keeps losing elections to fascists.

Remember that change is inevitable - so we should harness it instead of letting it ride us down.

Jeanne Solnordal attended the local Peralta Community College District and went on to recieve a Scholarship to Golden Gate University. While attending university, she worked on achieving her Tax Accounting Degree. After university, Jeanne worked for the IRS for 18 years until she Graduated JFK Law School at which time she began her own Property Management Firm (1994) after earning her Juris Doctrate Degree. Today she is still a liscensed Broker and owns and operates the same Property Management Firm. She and her Husband are proud to have recieved an award from Oakland Housing Authority in 2018 for having provided Affordable Housing to Oakland Residence for 5 Consecutive Years. *She has also been recognized for housing over 80 Homeless Veterans since opening her firm in 1994.

Jeanne seeks to improve the quality of life for ALL California Citizens by reducing taxes, improving public schools, and produce more services to rehabilitate and help the growing homeless population. As a citizen, Jeanne has expressed herself as a deep rooted candidate that aims to better her communities and take public feedback seriously. Jeanne wants to end the Homeless Crisis by providing free wellness centers for homeless citizens that are addicted to harmful drugs, expand access to homeless shelters, and increase the construction of new public housing, Designate certain areas for "Tent Cities" to reduce the sanitation concerns and loitering on city sidewalks. Jeanne feels strongly aboout taking back our cities from homelessness and Crime. She also feels strongly about our Public School System and how underfunded our childrens education has become. To make our schools a better place for our kids, Jeanne will propose to make California Public Schools more competitivs, Identify needs for more charter schools, and Raise teacher salaries by 10%. Not only will this help our underpaid educators, but our children will benefit from the Quality of Public Schools once again.