Policy Fund Fellows, Cohort 3, 2025-27

For the past five years Alex worked to bridge the gap between housing and transportation as the Policy Manager of Housing Equity at the Greenlining Institute and as a representative on the Interagency Equity Advisory Committee. Alex received their bachelors in politics, policy, and law from Cal State Long Beach.

As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, Alex works with the City of Pacifica, the Pacifica Resource Center, and HEART of San Mateo to implement housing element programs and guide the creation of objective design standards for future development.

When Alex is not writing, reading or researching housing policy you can find them on their bike riding around their home, Oakland.

Bee Coleman comes to the PBF Fellowship from the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC). As Project Manager of the Displacement Avoidance Plan, they implemented outreach, organizing and education strategy in Deep East Oakland with the Better Neighborhoods, Same Neighborhoods Initiative, funded by the Transformative Climate Communities Program. Bee is a current community owner with EBPREC.

Previously, Bee studied electrical engineering at Howard University and went on to work as a patent examiner; evolving from DARPA consultant to dog walker, to cooperative developer and organizer.

As a PBF Fellow, Bee is honored to team up with Richmond LAND, Community Housing Development Corporation and the Housing Authority of the County of Contra Costa on the redevelopment of former public housing properties known as Las Deltas. They are excited to support Richmond LAND’s flagship development, the tiny-cottage eco-village of North Richmond.

Chasidy is an affordable housing professional with over seven years of experience in policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, program management, and LIHTC finance. She holds a B.A. in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and Master’s degrees in Real Estate and Urban Planning from Cornell University.

Prior to the Fellowship, she financed affordable and workforce housing at JPMorgan Chase, led anti-displacement efforts in San Mateo County, and researched financial alternatives for artist live-work housing in memory of a close friend who was a victim of the Ghost Ship fire.

As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, Chasidy works with RAMP, La Clinica de la Raza, Black Cultural Zone, EBALDC, and the City of Oakland to improve housing conditions. Her work focuses on developing the Equitable Lead Hazard Abatement Program (ELHAP) and the Proactive Rental Inspection Program (PRIP), two initiatives tackling lead exposure and substandard housing in Oakland.

Beyond housing policy, Chasidy is passionate about storytelling and spending time with her loved ones. She oversees marketing and social media for the Cornell Real Estate Council, loves dance classes and karaoke, and is always up for swapping stories over a good meal.

Christopher Logan is a passionate spiritual practitioner in the public sphere, which means his ministry is to empower communities to create a world that works for everyone through policy change.

Previously, Chris was the Director of Organizing for Faith in Action East Bay, an Organizing Manager in San Jose, Sacramento, and New Orleans, and a licensed minister in the The United Methodist Church. He earned a Masters of Divinity from Saint Paul School of Theology.

As a Partnership for the Bay Future Fellow, Chris works in Marin County, alongside Community Action Marin and Movement Legal, implementing anti-displacement policies and county-wide cross-jurisdictional infrastructure for implementation.

When not working, Chris finds his spiritual grounding through community, yoga, and Afrobeats.

With a diverse background in housing and social services, Jared is excited to bring his experience to the Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellowship.

Jared’s early work with nonprofits highlighted the need for systemic solutions to support marginalized communities. This led him to pursue a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of San Francisco, where he honed his housing specialization with published research on homelessness policy and housing precarity amongst Bay Area BIPOC communities in his university journal and the Barnard-Columbia Urban Review.

Most recently, Jared was an Equity Policy Research Fellow at the California Housing Partnership before joining the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Tribal Programs Division, where he helped launch the Tribal Homekey NOFA and application.

As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, Jared works with the City of Pinole, Northern California Land Trust, and the Richmond Community Foundation on multiple equity-oriented housing projects including a social impact bond to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned properties to sell to local BIPOC first-time homebuyers.

Jaz brings over a decade of experience in organizational effectiveness, program strategy, and project management across nonprofits and foundations.

A first-generation college graduate, Jaz holds a B.S. in Community and Regional Development from UC Davis and an M.A. in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco.

Jaz previously served as a Program Officer at Sobrato Family Foundation, overseeing grantmaking for the Economic Mobility portfolio in the Bay Area. Before philanthropy, she worked in the education sector in direct service, learning and development, and program management.

As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, Jaz works with the City of East Palo Alto where she focuses on policy implementation of tenant protections and the preservation of affordable housing.

Beyond her work, she serves as Vice President of the Board for the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley. Jaz enjoys baking, walking with her dogs, and spending time with family.

Kamene Ogidi is a third-culture Black immigrant living in Oakland and currently supporting the City of Richmond as a Fellow.

Kamene holds a Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley and previously Kamene worked as a neighborhood planner with the City & County of San Francisco’s Planning Department. While with the City of San Francisco, they led participatory planning processes with communities in the Tenderloin neighborhood and conducted a comprehensive equity analysis for the 16,000 unit neighborhood development on Treasure & Yerba Buena Islands.

Kamene’s background in community organizing, energy justice, and sustainability planning informs their current work. As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, Kamene works with the City of Richmond, RichmondLAND, and Movement Legal. Their two projects include the disposition of surplus public lands via the city’s Equitable Public Land Disposition Policy and the implementation of an updated Residential Rental Inspection Program with an eye to decarbonizing rental units and improving housing quality in Richmond’s priority equity neighborhoods.

Molly Kron has spent her career developing and executing programs and policies targeting systemic inequities through her work in local government and philanthropy.

She brings over 10 years of experience in policy making, public financing, and philanthropic investments supporting the 3 P’s of housing: protection, preservation, and production. Most recently, Molly was a Senior Planner with the County of Marin, focused on housing and grants. Molly holds a bachelor’s in political science and a master’s in public policy.

Molly is committed to advancing community-centered and equity-focused policy and housing opportunities. As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, Molly is based in the City of San Jose, working to advance housing policy in collaboration with SV@Home.

In her free time, Molly enjoys being out in nature, listening to live music, and exploring the Bay Area.

With a foundation in transformative organizing within schools and justice systems, and recent experience in community development in early childhood education, Natalie learned that lasting change begins with policy and coordinated collaboration.

As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, Natalie works with Alameda County Supervisor Miley’s office and My Eden Voice. In this role, Natalie supports the needs of Alameda County’s unincorporated areas by exploring participatory governance models, analyzing the municipal budget and assessing programs and services, and identifying policy opportunities for systemic, long-term change.

Natalie’s passion for innovative change and relationship-building extends beyond her professional work. She serves on the Huckleberry Youth Programs Young Professionals Board, advises Save Your Six in a development capacity, and teaches private yoga sessions.

Vivian Schwab is an architect who works at the intersection of design, policy, and urban development, examining how cities reflect and reinforce political, economic, and environmental conditions within specific cultural contexts.

Her work spans multiple scales of affordable housing. As a licensed California architect, she worked on affordable housing at building and urban scales. As a researcher, she conducted comparative studies of housing models across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Most recently, as a Community Land Trust developer and board member, she implemented strategies to decommodify land and rethink its relationship to housing.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Vivian holds degrees in Sculpture and Sociology with a focus on Urban and Post-Colonial Studies from Wesleyan University and a Master of Architecture from Rice University.

As a Partnership for the Bay’s Future Fellow, she collaborates with the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development to develop policies and strategies to stabilize, improve, and reimagine Single Room Occupancy (SRO) buildings as critical housing infrastructure in San Francisco.

Beyond her professional work, she enjoys exploring her hometown, swimming in the bay, connecting with nature and community, and creating abstract art objects.