Bryna Chang
Candidate for City Council (At-Large), Palo Alto · (No Ballot Designation)
Bryna Chang has lived in Palo Alto almost her entire life, attending Nixon Elementary, JLS Middle School, and Gunn High School, and is raising her two sons in the Midtown neighborhood. She is a lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and director of its MBA Program Office, and has served as acting director of Stanford's Public Management Program. She previously worked as an internet product manager and as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, and holds a BS in Biology and an MBA with a Certificate in Public Management from Stanford. Since 2021 she has served on the Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission, twice as Chair and twice as Vice Chair.
Positions in brief
She points to her Planning and Transportation Commission work on housing, transportation, and development as central to her candidacy, and calls for practical, fiscally responsible, and transparent governance.
Chang says her years chairing and vice-chairing the Planning and Transportation Commission gave her a firsthand understanding of the city's challenges and opportunities on housing, transportation, and development. She frames her priorities around practical leadership, fiscal responsibility, and a commitment to transparency and long-term thinking.
On the issues
- Housing & Homelessness
Points to her Planning and Transportation Commission work guiding the city through decisions on housing, transportation, and development as central to her platform.
“a deep, firsthand understanding of both the challenges and the opportunities ahead”
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Calls for practical leadership, fiscal responsibility, and a commitment to transparency and long-term thinking.
“practical leadership, fiscal responsibility, and a commitment to transparency and long-term thinking”
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