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Patrice Berry
Patrice Berry is a member of the Oakland Unified Board of Education in California, representing District 5. She assumed office on January 6, 2025. Her current term ends on January 8, 2029.
Berry ran for election to the Oakland Unified Board of Education to represent District 5 in California. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Berry completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Patrice Berry graduated from Swarthmore College. Berry's career experience includes working as a policy director.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Oakland Unified School District, California, elections (2024)
General election
General election for Oakland Unified Board of Education District 5
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Patrice Berry in round 1 .
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Total votes: 12,326 |
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Endorsements
To view Berry's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Berry in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Patrice Berry completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Berry's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Throughout her career, Patrice has been on a mission to disrupt the opportunity gaps that deny historically disinvested communities the transformative power of education and economic empowerment. Prior to joining EPIC, Patrice co-founded AssistHub, an organization in Oakland, CA that eases the process of obtaining public benefits in California by blending coaching with tech-powered support. Patrice founded AssistHub as an Executive Advisor in Oakland's Office of Mayor Libby Schaaf, where she also led postsecondary and workforce success initiatives including the Northern CA College Promise Coalition and Oakland's Postsecondary Education and Workforce Success Collaborative. She was also the Director of College Track East Palo Alto, and the director of a student success center in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Leaders of Change - a paid internship program that trains aspiring college students in social entrepreneurship.
Patrice earned her BA in political science from Swarthmore College and completed her MEd at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves on the Board for both Hack The Hood and Moneythink, and is an alum of 4.0 Schools, Fast Forward Accelerator, and Camelback Ventures, Roddenberry Fellowship, the Solis Policy Institute, and Emerge CA.- All Oakland children deserve the opportunity to experience the confidence, empowerment, and joy of learning that comes with early literacy and math achievement. To ensure every child can read and do math at or above CA's standards, we must elevate these outcomes above all others and create the conditions needed for students and educators to thrive. Student and educator well-being, small class sizes and differentiated instruction, quality ELL and special education programs, and beautiful, safe facilities are all critical and fundamental elements of success.
- A thriving Oakland community is one wherein any Oakland student can graduate from one of our schools prepared for the pathway of their choice. We must invest in postsecondary readiness so that all youth have the opportunity to explore who they are, where they are going, and how they will get there. To accomplish this, we need to expand our collaborations with the UC, CSU, and community college systems (including Peralta Community College District), our trades, and public and private workforce partners.
- Oakland Unified School District’s short and long-term success will be largely driven by how quickly and effectively we stabilize our finances. We need to build a stable, sustainable financial future by bringing in new revenue, eliminating inefficiencies and optimizing existing resources, and working with our community of parents/caregivers, students, and educators to build a vision for our school district upon which we can make other decisions regarding our budget that reflect our values. Leasing vacant sites, maximizing partnerships, leveraging public dollars at the county and state level, and advocating for statewide policy change can help advance us toward that goal.
Black Women Organized for Political Action
Black Lives Voters Guide
Metropolitan Greater Oakland Democratic Club
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 595
Nor Cal Carpenters
Sheet Metal Workers Local 104
Sprinkler Fitters Local 483
Jacqueline Acosta, District 5 public school parent
Christian Martinez, Fruitvale Community Leader
Chris Iglesias, CEO, the Unity Council
Caheri Gutierrez, Director of Comms, the Unity Council
Karely Ordaz-Salto, Fruitvale Community Leader
David Silver, former District 5 school principal
Ay'Anna Moody, Oakland Community Leader
State Senator Nancy Skinner
State Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks
Libby Schaaf, former Oakland Mayor
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Oakland Unified Board of Education District 5 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 15, 2024
