Renée (she/her) joined NYC-DSA in early 2017 and helped build NYC-DSA’s successful electoral program. She moved back to her native northern California in late 2019 and has been an Oakland resident and a member of East Bay DSA since then. She’s served in multiple leadership roles in both chapters and on the national level, as a member of NYC-DSA’s Citywide Leadership Committee and East Bay DSA’s Steering Committee, as a past chair of DSA's National Electoral Committee, as a member of the national Protect Abortion working group, the Voting Rights Committee, the 2020 Bernie planning and campaign committees, and convention committees, including the Resolutions and Platform Committee in 2021, where she played a key role in drafting DSA’s national platform. She also helped build and launch CA-DSA and served as one of its inaugural cochairs. A civil rights and election lawyer, she’s also provided legal services for DSA-endorsed candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Julia Salazar, India Walton, and Bernie Sanders.