Tamisha Torres-Walker

Candidate for City Council Member, Antioch, District 1 · Councilwoman/Nonprofit Executive

Tamisha Torres-Walker has represented District 1 on the Antioch City Council since December 2020, and was re-elected in November 2022; a recount confirmed her win by four votes. She is a mother and grandmother who has lived in the district for years. After her release from incarceration in 2009, she became a community organizer working on mass-incarceration reform and racial disparities in the criminal justice system, with more than fourteen years of organizing experience in communities affected by trauma and economic inequality. She is co-founder and executive director of the Safe Return Project, a Contra Costa County organization supporting the reintegration and empowerment of formerly incarcerated people.

Torres-Walker highlights having championed investments in community-based violence prevention, including $3.9 million secured for gun-violence programs, and having supported a mobile mental-health crisis response team. She says she helped establish "Antioch's first civilian police oversight body" and advanced body-camera and dash-camera policies. On housing, she says she "fought for rent stabilization and stronger tenant protections" and has supported transitional housing and services for unhoused residents, including housing opportunities for veterans and working families. On the environment, she supported efforts to "stop oil and gas drilling" and helped shut down a gas pipeline in the community. On government accountability, she says she prioritizes making "City Hall more transparent, accessible and accountable."

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