Nate Adams

Candidate for City Council Member, Oakland, District 2 · Community Organizer

Nate Adams is a community organizer whose grandmother emigrated from Japan to Oakland, and whose grandfather, a Japanese American, had his farm seized during World War II internment. Adams was raised by a single mother in a low-income Sacramento neighborhood and experienced housing instability firsthand. He attended community college before transferring to UC Berkeley, then returned to Oakland to organize. He is a former co-chair of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America, previously worked as an organizer for the Richmond Progressive Alliance, and served on the national coordinating team for the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, which has supported grassroots labor organizing in thousands of workplaces. He has also worked on stopping illegal landlord entry and negotiating tenant protections, and played a role in Alameda County's divestment from businesses tied to the Gaza war, described as the first county-level divestment of its kind nationally.

At his campaign launch, Adams led supporters in a chant of his three campaign pledges: slash the rents, fix the streets, and fill the jobs, referring to hundreds of vacant city positions he says should be filled.

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