Candidate for
Member, City Council; City of Alameda

Mike Rich was born in Glendale, California in 1962, and has lived in California his whole life. Mike's father was a firefighter-paramedic and his mother was a school secretary. As a teenager his parents moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and he attended San Leandro High School. In his youth Mike took an interest in music and continues to enjoy music as a hobby. He later attended college at night while working full-time, and graduated with honors from Cal State Hayward, earning a bachelors degree in Liberal Studies, with a minor in creative writing.

Mike has worked most of his adult life in the field of labor relations and human resources; he is currently the personnel director of a large public agency located in the Bay Area.

For the last nine years Mike has lived in Alameda, CA, with his wife; they have a daughter in Kindergarten.