Committees

East Bay DSA has many committees engaged in the important work of the chapter, addressing the needs of its members and the larger community.

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee of East Bay DSA is the governing board of the chapter, generally supervises its affairs between regular membership meetings, and implements the priorities adopted by the membership at the last annual convention.

• Co-chairs: Zach W. and Juan C.
• Vice Chair: Victoria V.
• Recording secretary: Dale H.
• Contact: [email protected]

See more about the Steering Committee.

Labor Committee

If workers are to have the power in society to get their needs met, we must develop and grow the capacity to stop business as usual. When push comes to shove, capitalists and their political puppets care foremost about securing profits and property rights. Therefore, workers must build independent and democratic workplace organizations -- that is, unions and worker committees rooted in rank-and-file initiative and shopfloor power. Such robust labor organizations allow workers to articulate and advance their collective interests both as workers and as part of the broader working class.

The Labor Committee is made up of workers, rank-and-file union members, union staff, labor educators, and labor activists committed to building a strong, militant, democratic labor movement and its socialist wing, all of which are key to a rebirthed, truly mass socialist politics. To help bring about this revitalization, the Labor Committee engages in workplace organizing support, labor education, and solidarity work, and more.

• Co-chairs: Jonathan M. and Nick R.
• Vice Chair: Gina S.
• Recording secretary: Hamsa E.
• Membership & Onboarding Coordinator: Eric E.
• Contact: [email protected]

See more about the Labor Committee.

Electoral Committee

The Electoral Committee organizes East Bay DSA’s electoral campaigns, and coordinates with EBDSA-endorsed elected officials. We cannot vote our way to socialism, but the state is nonetheless a key arena of struggle against capital, and electoral campaigns can be powerful tools to foster working-class militancy and build socialist power and organization. The Electoral Committee is tasked with long term electoral strategy, preparing home-grown socialist candidates to run for office, and running independent chapter campaigns to help them win.

• Co-chairs: Antonio G., Nickan F.
• Contact: [email protected]

See more about the Electoral Committee.

Housing Committee

The Housing Committee is organizing a movement of working-class tenants, homeowners, and houseless people fighting the California real estate lobby and corporate landlords, for housing that is universal, democratically run, ecologically designed, high-quality, permanently affordable and off the private market.

Our campaigns have included fighting in coalitions for local rent control campaigns in cities like Hayward, statewide ballot initiatives for strong rent control like Prop 10, tenant protections, direct actions, and electoral efforts to create taxes on speculators and the wealthy, all in order to disrupt speculation, spread socialist housing ideas, and seize power from landlords and capitalists.

We also popularize our vision of social housing through community education efforts, propaganda, and by supporting DSA chapters across the state to advocate for social housing.

• Co-chairs: William W. and Matthew L.
• Contact: [email protected]

Political Education Committee

The Political Education Committee educates East Bay DSA members on socialist theory, history, and methodology through regularly occurring Socialist Night School classes and public lectures and events. Through these political education programs, socialist organizers will be able to understand their current context and their tasks ahead more clearly and gain the fluency they need to become public tribunes for socialism.

• Co-chairs: Izzy M. and Molly C.
• Contact: [email protected]

See more about Socialist Night School.

Climate Action Committee

The Climate Action Committee believes that all people, present and future, are entitled to a beautiful planet with a vibrant natural world that can sustain a good life for all. Moreover, because capitalism is deeply tied to the destructive extraction of resources and disruption of the ecosystem, it must be overthrown and replaced if that vision is to be achieved. The core logic of capitalism is incompatible with a healthy planet.

Capitalism’s antagonism to nature is right now most sharply expressed in the fossil fuel-caused climate crisis, and so this is where our focus is. Our broad aim is to build the capacity necessary to replace capitalism with an ecological society, by weaving together the ecological struggle with other anti-capitalist fights.

As a committee, we are currently exploring a variety of tactics and approaches, including: working with existing unions to build power for a just transition away from fossil fuel use, working with the rest of the climate movement to help move it in an anti-capitalist direction, participating in electoral campaigns to intervene in local struggles against fossil capital, and organizing political education.

You can find our meetings on the calendar. We hope you’ll join us in the struggle for a healthy and beautiful planet!

• Co-chairs: Bonnie L, Ian F
• Contact: [email protected]

Chapter Communications

The Communications Secretary has oversight of the chapter's communications and reports directly to the chapter Steering Committee. The Communications Secretary plays a role in shaping and amplifying East Bay DSA's message, ensuring that our democratically mandated political vision, campaigns, and organizing efforts reach members and the broader public effectively. Key responsibilities of the role include:

1.       Earned Media & Public Relations

2.       Social Media & Digital Strategy

3.       Chapter Email Strategy

4.       Crisis Communication & Rapid Response

The teams that report to the Communications Secretary changes based on the existing chapter structures. The list as of February 2025 includes:

1.       Social Media Team Leads Jonathan M., Zach W., Victoria V.

2.       Newsletter Team Lead Simon B.

3.       Bay Area Current Leads Justin G., Zoe S., Charlotte A.

Communications Secretary: Nate A.

Contact: [email protected]

Chapter Coordination Committee

The Chapter Coordination Committee is where we work on the nuts and bolts of the systems that make the chapter tick. There are 4 teams, each with a team lead who will help coordinate the work.

• Co-Chairs - Schedule and help coordinate Leads, Max M , Dale H.
• Tech Team - Manages our Discord server, our website, and NationBuilder, Lead Mark D.
• Meetings Team - Plans General Membership Meetings. Lead: (Vacant) See more about Meetings Team.
• Office Team - Stocks, tidies, and keeps our office running smoothly. Lead: Yuesun Y.
• Membership Development Team - Coordinates membership development, and chapter socials. Lead: Yari G
• New Member Cohort - Coordinates new member onboarding, Lead Skyler S.

Tenant Organizing Committee

Organize your building, or help your neighbors organize theirs! The Tenant Organizing provides trainings and support for people who want to build up the power to fight back against landlords.

Co-chairs: Hamsa E. and Inés D

Contact: [email protected]

See more about the Tenant Organizing Committee.

Anti-Imperialism Committee

Imperialism is a dominant feature of modern day capitalism. The United States has accumulated its wealth and attained its position as the leading capitalist power through the exploitation of other nations–through the extraction of other nation’s natural resources, exportation of production and exploitative labor practices, and the binding of other nations to unfair trade arrangements. US imperialism has been responsible for war, genocide, mass starvation, the displacement of peoples, and toppling of governments across the globe, all in the name of the financial interests of the US elite. 

Our fight against capitalist exploitation at home necessities our fight against the violence it perpetuates overseas. The Anti-Imperialism Committee participates in a variety of actions to challenge US international aggression, including: mobilization for rallies and demonstrations, political education events, and the development of pressure campaigns like our recent Divest Against Apartheid.

Join us in our fight for a better world.

Co-chairs: Andy M., Mike H.

Contact: [email protected]