Candidate for
Director; East Bay Municipal Utility District; Ward 3

http://www.young4ebmud.org/qualifications

About Marguerite

Marguerite's East Bay roots go deep. She's a third-generation Californian and has lived in the East Bay most of her life. She grew up in Kensington working at her family's grocery store, Young's Market which was founded by her grandfather in 1936. She has a deep connection to water and the environment fostered by years of family camping trips, service work with Camp Fire Girls, and involvement in activism at an early age including working on the DDT ban, cleaning oil-soaked birds after the SF bay oil spill in 1971 and organizing her junior high school on the first Earth Day. She was active in student government at El Cerrito High School, where she founded and led a civic action group, Unified Students. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Natural Resources, she dedicated her professional career to the environmental and labor movements as an organizer, campaign strategist and policy advocate with the California League of Conservation Voters, Clean Water Action and the Service Employees International Union. She has lived in Oakland for the past 24 years, sixteen of those raising her son Ben who shares her love of wild places. In her spare time they enjoy kayaking and traveling the West together.

Water Quality Expertise

• Led the campaign to get gas powered boats off of EBMUD reservoirs
• Sponsored legislation to set a health protective standard for arsenic in drinking water
• Led coalition to include funding for source water protection in the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, *Member of State's Source Water Assessment Advisory Committee
• Helped to develop rules to protect drinking water from the harmful byproducts of disinfection as appointed member to EPA Federal Advisory Committee on the Multiple Disinfection By-product Rule
• Co-chair CALFED Bay-Delta Program Water Quality Committee
• Served on Ca Recycled Water Task Force that resulted in States goals for Recycled Water

• More than 20 years with Clean Water Action and the California League of Conservation Voters
• Directed field operations for successful election campaigns from the local to the state level including serving on the steering committee of Prop 50, the largest successful water quality bond measure in California
• Past Co-Chair CalFED Bay Delta Water Quality Committee
• Co-founder East Bay League of Conservation Voters

• 12 years working with the nation's largest labor union, the Service Employees International Union
• Holding large corporations accountable for their social and environmental practices
• Advocate for responsible investment of worker retirement savings
• Provided ongoing defense and advocacy to protect retirement security

Corporate Accountability Director/ Senior Climate and Infrastructure Policy Analyst: Service Employees International Union Capital Stewardship Program. Directs program to ensure that members' pension funds are invested in ways that improve the lives of working families, protect the environment, and nourish local community economies. Special focus Climate and Infrastructure.

California Director Clean Water Action Responsible for overall program and budget of the 30,000 member state chapter of national environmental organization. Developed and executed campaigns to protect drinking water, water quality in the Bay and Delta, promote consumer right to know, and to advance the precautionary principle.

Regional Supervisor Clean Water Action/Citizen's Campaigns Directed field operations in numerous states in support of water programs--including California, Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and Washington DC--recruiting more than 50,000 members per year and more than a million dollars in annual revenue. Directed electoral training, targeting and field strategies in more than 3 dozen elections at the local, state and federal level.

Field Canvass Director California League of Conservation Voters Directed field canvass operations in Sacramento and San Francisco. Led field based electoral efforts for local and state ballot measures, local and state candidates., including running the Contra Costa County Get-out-the-Vote against the Peripheral Canal in 1982. Organized the Central Valley League of Conservation Voters.

Various other jobs including assistant environmental planner, whitewater rafting guide, camp counselor, grocery and department store clerk.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University of California-Berkeley, Political Economy of Natural Resources