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Tom Bates has brought a lifetime of public service to the Mayor's office — including four years as an Alameda County Supervisor and two decades as a California legislator representing Berkeley.

Now serving in his eighth year as Mayor and one of the founding partners of the East Bay Green Corridor, he has focused tremendous effort and resources on building Berkeley into a national environmental powerhouse. Under his leadership, the City became the first in the nation to share its fleet vehicles with the public as part of a partnership with City CarShare and passed a new law requiring all city buildings be built to green standards.

Mayor Bates helped to pass Berkeley's award-winning Climate Action Plan with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by the year 2050. Mayor Bates also co-created the innovative renewable energy program, Berkeley FIRST, which was developed to overcome several of the major hurdles of renewable energy adoption and garnered worldwide attention.

Currently, Mayor Bates serves on the Bay Area Air Quality Management Board, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Regional Airport Planning Committee, and the Joint Policy Committee. He is the acting chair of the East Bay Green Corridor.

Mayor Bates is married to former Mayor of Berkeley and California State Senator Loni Hancock. Their family includes four children, Casey, Jon, Mara and Leita and seven grandchildren.

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Carla Din is the Director of the East Bay Green Corridor. She has been an advocate of renewable energy for over a decade, beginning as the Environmental Liaison for the United Steelworkers' District 11 where she facilitated Steelworker support for a comprehensive Northwest energy policy that endorsed investments in renewable energy, conservation and salmon protection.

Her ongoing work with prominent labor organizations in 2002 resulted in overwhelming labor support for SB1078 (Sher), California's landmark Renewable Portfolio Standard bill, which required the state to generate 20% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2017 (accelerated in 2006 to 2010) and promised to create 12,000 new jobs.

In 2004, Carla joined the Apollo Alliance to advance clean energy and energy efficiency and reduce dependence on foreign oil. In that position, she helped craft successful State legislation to increase energy efficiency in Oregon's public buildings, provide incentives for solar energy use in Hawaii, and establish Green Technology Partnership Academies in California's high schools.

Carla served on the California State Assembly Bill 118 Advisory Committee of the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and helped establish multi-million dollar funds for advanced vehicle manufacturing and workforce development. She is a current Advisory Board member of the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment's New Voices Are Rising Program, and a former board member of the Northern California Solar Energy Association and the Northwest Energy Coalition. She is a past recipient of the Senator Byron Sher Environmental Leadership Award from the California League of Conservation Voters.

Carla received her BA from UC Berkeley and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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