Advisory Committee

The following contributors make up the What's Next California Advisory Committee:

Orson Aguilar, Greenlining Institute

Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation

DeDe Alpert, Former legislator

Nancy Berlin, Center for Community Change

Linda Best, Contra Costa Council

Christopher Chavez, California State Student Association

David Davenport, California Forward, Hoover Institution

Larry Diamond, Stanford University

Ann Doerr

Kathay Feng, California Common Cause

Joel Fox, Small Business Action Committee

Dave Garth, San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce

Janis Hirohama, California League of Women Voters

Denise Hunter, First AME Church

Loren Kaye, California Fdoundation for Commerce and Education

David Lesher, Public Policy Institute of California

Michele Lew, Asian Americans for Commuunity Involvement

JIm Mayer, California Forward

Lenny Mendonca, California Forward, New America Foundation, Common Cause, Bay Area Council

Mitch Mitchell, Little Hoover Commission

Anu Natarajan, Reviving CA

Eligio Nava, Central California Hispanic Chamber

David Pacheco, AARP

Pete Peterson, Pepperdine University's Davenport Inst for Public Engagement

Laurene Powell Jobs, New America Foundation

Kendra Rogers, First 5 - Fresno

Jean Ross, California Budget Project

Dan Schnur, USC Unruh Institute of Politics

Libby Sholes, California Church Impact

Jonathan Stein, Democracy Matters

Bob Stern, Center for Governmental Studies

State-Local Reform

Local governments – counties, cities, and "special districts" such as school districts – provide many of the services that we use on a daily basis, from schools and police protection to the water in our faucets and the collection of our trash. Californians expect local governments to produce high-quality services, as cost-effectively as possible. Read More

Taxation & Fiscal Policy

The way state and local governments collect public revenue for public services has come under increased scrutiny during our state’s recent fiscal crisis, as has the question of what California can afford. The tradeoff between funding for essential services and their inevitable pocketbook implications makes tax policy a constant cause of controversy. Read More

Initiative Process

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of California’s initiative process, a system designed to put lawmaking power in the hands of the people. The initiative allows voters, often acting in organized groups, to collect signatures in order to put a new law or a change to the state constitution before their fellow voters on the ballot. Read More

Representation

With one Assembly member for every 467,000 residents and one state Senator for every 934,000 residents, our legislative districts are nearly ten times the national average. When assemblymembers represent nearly half a million residents and travel long distances across their districts, direct interactions with constituents are scarce. Read More

Advisory Committee

State-Local Reform

Taxation & Fiscal Policy

Initiative Process

Representation

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