Taliah Mirmalek is a community researcher-organizer from Oakland. She will conduct research and analysis supporting a multi-stakeholder collaborative aimed at increasing civic participation among those who have been excluded or disaffected, rather than simplistically focusing on the consistently politically active. For the past three years, she has been organizing as a researcher in the labor movement, most recently with UNITE HERE Local 2850. She also spent time with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s Environmental Justice and Community Benefits Program, where she evaluated and monitored firm commitments to offset the PUC’s historical degradation of low-income, communities of color neighborhoods.
