Latika MalkaniIncumbent
Candidate for City Council (At-Large), Orinda · Incumbent
Latika Malkani is an attorney, business owner, and community advocate who has lived in Orinda for eighteen years and raised three children there. She is a partner at the Oakland employment-law firm Siegel LeWitter Malkani, representing employees and labor unions in cases involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage-and-hour claims; earlier in her career she worked in the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing's Office of General Counsel and as a Senior Policy Analyst for the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. In Orinda she has served as Commissioner and Vice-Chair of the city's Supplemental Sales Tax Oversight Commission and as a Board Member of The Orinda Association. She was elected to the Orinda City Council in 2022 as the top vote-getter and served as the city's Mayor in 2025.
Positions in brief
Malkani favors sustainable growth and a vibrant downtown, more transparent and participatory city government, and continued wildfire-protection investment.
In her candidate statement, Malkani points to her record as Vice-Chair of Orinda's Supplemental Sales Tax Oversight Commission helping pass data-driven wildfire-protection recommendations. She says she favors smart, sustainable growth and a vibrant downtown, wants to bring more town halls and participatory budgeting to city government, and wants Orinda to grow responsibly while maintaining fiscal reserves and critical infrastructure.
On the issues
- Environment, Energy & Climate
As Vice-Chair of Orinda's Supplemental Sales Tax Oversight Commission, helped pass and implement data-driven wildfire-protection recommendations.
“data-driven recommendations to protect our families and community from wildfires”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Favors smart, sustainable growth and building a vibrant downtown.
“I favor smart, sustainable growth and creating a vibrant downtown.”
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Supports more town halls, participatory budgeting, and community engagement to increase accountability and transparency.
“I will work for accountability and transparency, with town halls, participatory budgeting, and an approach that welcomes community engagement.”
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Says the city should grow responsibly while maintaining fiscal reserves and critical infrastructure.
“maintaining fiscal reserves and critical infrastructure”
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