Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee on Friday announced members of a transition team of politicians, business leaders, philanthropists, attorneys and nonprofit heads that will help her lead the city when she takes office.
The group includes Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation; Keith Carson, a retired Alameda County supervisor; Quinn Delaney, founder of the Akonadi Foundation; and Carrie Owen Plietz, regional president for Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
The transition committee will be tasked with helping Lee implement her 10-point plan to address Oakland’s challenges and with creating working groups to address homelessness, public safety and labor issues, improve small business support, and establish public-private partnerships, she has said…