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.
