I’ll never stop fighting for the change we need!
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Thank you for visiting my website and voting in this consequential election for our sisters, daughters and local communities.
In 2016, I joined hundreds of other women at Trump Tower to advocate for our health, safety, and reproductive rights. Yet in 2024, we are still pushing to defeat Trump and – here in Alameda County – continuing the fight for an end to gun violence, for affordable healthcare and housing for all, and solutions to homelessness.
As a lifelong community organizer, Filipina daughter of immigrants, sexual assault survivor, and working mom these issues are highly personal to me.
That’s why I support trained, accountable law enforcement and stronger financial investment to attack the root causes of crime and poverty — and created thousands of affordable housing units, helped hundreds of low-income tenants purchase homes, expanded violence prevention programs, and launched Fire Department mobile crisis teams to address mental health and 911 calls.
Please join my coalition led by Civil Rights Leader Lateefah Simon, the Alameda Labor Council, California Nurses Association, California Women’s List and Bay Rising Action to take our vision and successful approaches to the County. Let’s go!
Nikki Fortunato Bas
Oakland City Council President
Future Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, Nikki & Labor Leader Debra Grabelle
About Nikki: Principled, Accountable Leadership
Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas is a Filipina daughter of immigrants, sexual assault survivor and working mom. These experiences inspired her to lead coalitions fighting for safe neighborhoods, a living wage, an end to food insecurity, and access to affordable healthcare and housing.
Nikki is a life-long, award-winning organizer who has spent decades successfully organizing Chinatown garment workers, building the student anti-sweatshop movement, and advocating for fair pay and working conditions for the East Bay’s most vulnerable residents. Previously the Executive Director of the Partnership for Working Families and the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy.
Currently serving as Oakland's City Council President, Nikki leads the fight for an East Bay where every family is healthy, safe, and housed. She championed a $350,000,000 bond measure for up to 2,400 housing units for homeless and working families; established a $14,000,000 Fund to assist low-income housing insecure tenants to purchase homes; expanded violence prevention and anti-sex trafficking programs; and launched Fire Department mobile crisis teams to address mental health and 911 calls – and will take these successful approaches to the County as your Supervisor.
A 27-year Oakland Grand Lake resident, Nikki and her spouse Brad are the proud parents of daughter Balana, a college student.
Selected Leadership Positions:
✔ Oakland City Council President
✔ Executive Board and Housing Committee member, Association of Bay Area Governments
✔ Board Member, Youth Ventures Joint Powers Authority
✔ Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families
✔ Executive Director, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
✔ Member, National League of Cities Re-imagining Public Safety Task Force
Read Nikki's Impact Report from her work as an Oakland City Councilmember and Council President
Differences between Nikki and her opponent
Many don’t know that a 5-member Board of Supervisors controls a multi-billion dollar budget for women’s health, affordable housing, homeless services, and coordination of emergency response. A majority female Board would be a game changer for ensuring the unique needs of women and children are met.
Nikki has spent a lifetime fighting for these issues and her opponent has not. He is opposed by every major Labor union for being against the interests of working families, voting to lower the minimum wage, and lying that he has made progress on affordable housing with a 2018 bond measure when not a single affordable housing unit has been completed under his leadership.
The stakes in this election couldn’t be higher. Learn more by reading about Nikki’s work further, and about her opponent John Bauters on truthaboutbauters.com.