Re-Elect Councilmember Soheila Bana: 

She’s Still Committed to Our Community–And She’s Moving Richmond Forward. 

Our District 4 City Councilmember Soheila Bana has an engineer’s mind and an activist’s heart. Over a 30-year career as a human rights nonprofit founder, engineer, wildfire prevention leader, Parks Commissioner, and Councilmember, she’s focused on solving big problems that make people’s lives better. Now she’s running for re-election to keep Richmond moving forward.

City Hall’s Public Safety and Wildfire Prevention Leader: Soheila pushed City Hall to finally make wildfire safety a top priority. She founded and leads the County's first Fire Safe Council, which educates residents on wildfire preparedness and partners with regional governments on evacuation planning.

Fighting for Safer, Affordable, Sustainable Communities: Soheila has worked with local nonprofits to reduce gun violence and to end gender-based violence.. She’s fought for higher wages for working families. And as a Richmond Parks Commissioner and nonprofit boardmember, she’s advocated for cleaner energy and to protect our parks. 

A Pioneering Engineer and Problem Solver: Soheila worked as a State transportation engineer and has a deep understanding of our transit challenges. A President of Women in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, she helped establish the first graduate student-parental leave policy in America.

An Internationally Recognized Human Rights Advocate: Born in Iran, Soheila co-founded Stop Stoning Forever, which helped end Iran’s secretive practice of stoning people—usually women--to death for adultery.