@disabilityrightsca.bsky.social @disabilityrightsca.bsky.social 
Matt Matusiewicz @mattmatusiewicz.bsky.social he/him | public health researcher | UCSF/Berkeley + your local Oakland dogsitter
Drug Policy Alliance - California @dpa-california.bsky.social The California office of @drugpolicyorg works to enact health-centered drug policies in California. Invest in #HealthNotHarm
Liza Ramrayka @lizaramrayka.bsky.social Award-winning social justice & solutions journalist. Report For America mentor. Trustee: 826 Valencia & Salusbury World.
http://linkedin.com/in/lizaramrayka1
@networkforphl.bsky.social @networkforphl.bsky.social The Network for Public Health Law is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the use of law to promote, protect and improve public health.
🔗 Visit us at: https://www.networkforphl.org/
Kat Murti @katmurti.bsky.social Libertarian. Feminist. Activist. 
Lauren Krisai @laurenn.bsky.social Executive Director, Justice Action Network + Justice Action Network Foundation. I work to pass laws that reform the criminal justice system in states across the country.
Svante Myrick @svantemyrick.bsky.social President and CEO of People For the American Way.
Youngest Mayor in New York History.
Longest serving Mayor in Ithaca's History.
But somehow, posts mostly about sports. 
Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
Glenn Backes @glennbackes.bsky.social My stuff: Health, safety and well-being of low income families and individuals. Live music, and movies old and new. Sactown, USA. He/Him.
Broken No More @broken-no-more.bsky.social We support those who have lost loved ones to substance use and advance drug policies based in public health, harm reduction, and science.
#EndOverdose #NoMoreDrugWar
https://broken-no-more.org/
Release: Drugs, The Law & Your Rights @releasedrugs.bsky.social UK's centre of expertise on drugs and drug law. Global reports on decrim and racist policing. Campaigning for rights of people who use drugs.
Need advice? Contact 020 7324 2989/ ask@release.org.uk
CCAPP @ccapp.us CCAPP is the largest statewide consortium of community-based for-profit and nonprofit substance use disorder agencies and professionals.
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Laurel in Transit @laurelintransit.bsky.social Transportation justice. Live in Oakland, work all over California. More from me at laurelintransit.com and transitdataprimer.org
East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
Lateefah Simon @lateefahsimon.bsky.social Mom | Bay Native | Congresswoman CA-12 | Official posts @replsimon.bsky.social | MacArthur Foundation Fellow | @kamalaharris.com alum | posts are mine
Kelly Knight @kellyrayknight.bsky.social Medical Anthropologist @ University of California - San Francisco
Associate Director, Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative
Opioid Industry Document Archive
addicted.pregnant.poor
Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social Assist. Professor. Overdose and drug policy researcher at Brown University. www.harmreductionlab.com
The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) @cduhr.bsky.social The Center for Drug Use & HIV Research is dedicated to increasing the understanding of the drug use-HIV epidemic, particularly among high-risk people -NIDA P30DA011041.
StoptheDrugWar.org @stopthedrugwar.org 
Ben Senator @bensenator.bsky.social Researcher & doctoral fellow @ RAND. Interests in drug policy, regulation, at the intersection of public health and crime.
Oakland Roots SC @oaklandroots.bsky.social ➟ 2025 Season Tickets: bit.ly/25seasonticketsbsky
Harness the magic of Oakland and the power of sport as a force for social good. Competing in the USL Championship. ⚽️🌳🖤
Raquelle @raquelle.bsky.social Artist ▪ Animator ▪️ Oakland Born ▪ Oakland Raised ▪ ✊🏿
https://linktr.ee/Raquelle_
Madeleine Bair @madbair.bsky.social Civic media junkie. Oakland native. Mother, daughter, sister, friend. Founder of @eltimpano.bsky.social '23-'24 JSK Fellow.
Kat Ferreira @katferreira.bsky.social Consultant | Former Communications Director @maynardinstitute | Social media marketing survivor with love/hate for tech | @OaklandVoices alum | I suffer from topophilia and watch too much TV
Felicity Rose @felicityrose.bsky.social Criminal justice research & policy wonk at FWD.us, trying to get people free, solo mom, reader, #GoDucks football, #DubNation and #Valkyries fan, will ply you with baked goods if we meet IRL. Living the dream with my library ladder.
Kat @kathryngibb.bsky.social (she/her) based in Oakland, CA. Epidemiologist with an interest in worker health and climate change. MPH from Mailman, views my own
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social tacos en paz, burritos en guerra
NPR: “a little bit of a burrito thought leader”
senior member of TAPBL (The All Powerful Bike Lobby)
Elbows Up
Jose Fermoso @fermoso.bsky.social Journalist, Oaklander, Californian. 
Kate Chatfield @katechatfield.bsky.social Attorney. Californian. Executive Director, California Public Defenders Association. “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
Brian Watt @radiobwatt.bsky.social Morning deliverer of @kqednews.kqed.org RADIO.
Accentuate the positive. Help process the negative.
I live in The Town @cityofoakland.bsky.social. I work in The City
I Can see Th' @emeryville.org from my backyard.
https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt
Chelsea L. Shover, PhD @chelsealshover.bsky.social Epidemiologist, faculty at UCLA. Drug policy, overdose, data, etc.
Sylvie Sturm @mildobserver.bsky.social Reporter at @sfpublicpress.bsky.social & Civic, UCSF Synapse managing editor, proud 🇨🇦 ssturm@sfpublicpress.org
Jean Walsh @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social Elected AC Transit Board Member representing Berkeley, Emeryville, and parts of Oakland, CA. Car free since 2004.
*Views expressed here are my own*
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Benjamin A. Barsky @benjaminabarsky.bsky.social Associate Prof. at UC Law San Francisco, studying health, inequality, and law.
Jennifer Oliva @jennoliva.bsky.social Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social; #health law, #drug policy, #privacy, #evidence, #torts, complex #litigation; West Point, Oxford & Georgetown Law alum; https://law.indiana.edu/about/people/details/oliva-jennifer-d.html
Ji Seon Song @jiseonsong.bsky.social Law prof at UC Irvine ruminating on policing, punishment & healthcare. Otherwise, 🇰🇷🇺🇸 preoccupied with travel, food, music.
David Tian, MD, MPP, FASAM @dtian.bsky.social Health policy practitioner in California’s Medicaid program, general internist, and addiction specialist. Board Member, CA Society of Addiction Med. Interested in population health, health equity, and improving access to care. Views my own.
Kate Roberts PhD, MDiv, LCSW @katelcsw.bsky.social Therapist | Researcher working with women who use drugs| My own views| Heart in Durham body in the Bay Area | 🏳️🌈💉❤️
Vivek Jain, MD, MAS, FIDSA @vivekjainmd.bsky.social Infectious diseases & HIV doctor and researcher. Director, ID Clinic & Co-Director, Infection Control, San Francisco General Hospital. Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Leslie Suen, MD, MAS @suenlw.bsky.social Addiction medicine & primary care physician, implementation scientist & health services researcher interested in harm reduction & drug policy @UCSF. Opinions my own.
UCSF Action Research Center for Health @arcforhealth.bsky.social The UCSF Action Research Center for Health leads research to transform systems & create conditions so everyone can live good & healthy lives.
📪 Newsletter: bit.ly/ARCforHealthNews
🔗 LinkedIn: bit.ly/ARCforHealthLinkedIn
🖥️ ARCforHealth.ucsf.edu
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Sophia Bollag @sophiabollag.bsky.social California politics reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Reach me at sophia.bollag@sfchronicle.com
Hannah Wiley @hannahcwiley.bsky.social Deputy politics editor at The San Francisco Standard. Before: Los Angeles Times & Sacramento Bee.
Bay Rising @bayrising.bsky.social Centering the agendas of working-class communities of color in Bay Area govt.
https://bayrising.org/
https://linktr.ee/bayrising
Dept of Research and Academic Engagement at Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicynerds.bsky.social 
Prosperity California @prosperityca.bsky.social Building an inclusive movement to solve CA’s housing, climate, and economic challenges. Together, we all prosper. Join us at prosperitycalifornia.org
Jim Lindburg @jimlindburg.bsky.social Self-employed@enemy within, former leg. director, advocate, lead guitarist for Rolling Stoned.
Lisa Halverstadt @lisahalverstadt.bsky.social @voiceofsandiego.org senior investigative reporter digging into San Diego County government & our homelessness, housing & behavioral health crises. 📧Lisa@vosd.org
Scott Graves @shg29.bsky.social Budget Director @ calbudgetcenter.org
#CABudget | #CALeg | #Medicaid | #HealthPolicy | Justice System
@joshuamarinm.bsky.social @joshuamarinm.bsky.social california state assembly • @AsmRickZbur • opiniones son mías
Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social California State Assemblymember | Los Angeles
Kristin Lam @kristinslam.bsky.social Union comms. She/her
Tom Philp @tomfilp.bsky.social Sacramento Bee opinion writer.
The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org Journalism for Oakland. We amplify community voices, share information resources, and investigate systems, not just symptoms. A nonprofit newsroom part of Cityside Journalism Initiative.
SEIU California @seiuca.org We are 750,000 members 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼 — CA’s health care workers, state & county employees, security officers, school workers, janitors, & more!
Eric Morrison-Smith @ericms.bsky.social Executive Director of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color (ABMoC). Struggling to live a Black revolutionary life. Always learning, reflecting, evolving. Substack: Notes from a Black Revolutionary
Caitlin Hughes @drcaitlinhughes.bsky.social Associate Professor in #Criminology & #DrugPolicy. Flinders University.
President - International Society for the Study of Drug Policy issdrugpolicy.bsky.social. #DrugLaws #Decriminalisation #Policing #DrugMarkets #CrossNationalResearch
Sara Wakefield @sarawakefield.bsky.social Sociologist. Criminologist. Depends on the day which one comes first. Studying incarceration, inequality, and family life. Prone to posting thoughts about soccer and my family that should probably be texts to my friends.
Natalie Fertig @natsfert.bsky.social Writing about America’s states for POLITICO | 🌲In D.C., from the other Washington 🏔️ | Jesus fan, small town kid | Alum of McClatchy, CUNY Jschool, Portland State University • nfertig@politico.com
Michael S. Pollard @sociologian.bsky.social Sociologist and Demographer at RAND. Research mostly on social connection, substance use (alcohol and cannabis), and migration, but with many tangents. Opinions = my own, RTs ≠ endorsements.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iRep51wAAAAJ&hl=en
Jackie Jackpot @jackie-jackpot.bsky.social Drug policy | 7 Hope Alliance 📚 | Cannabis 💨 | 7-OH + Kratom 🍃 | Psychedelics 🍄 | Nature lover 🐝 | Yogi 🧘🏽♀️ | Music 🪕| Hiker 🥾| Anti-Prohibitionist ⛓️💥| Resist Fascism 🦋
Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca A group of Canadian physicians who care for people who use substances and advocate for safer, more compassionate, evidence-based healthcare policies.
ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social The ACLU fights for your rights ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿
Media inquiries: press@aclunc.org
Website: www.aclunc.org
Andrew Chamings @andrewchamings.bsky.social British journalist in California. SFGate editor-at-large. also the Atlantic, Vice, SF Weekly. I write about crime and history and misfits and buildings. Lit agent: Jessica Papin at Dystel
Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social San Francisco journalist. @sfgate.com editor-in-chief | Also: Daily Cal Board Member | Always: Cal Golden Bear | Signal: grantmarek.83
Mission Local @missionlocal.org Independent, nonprofit news for San Francisco.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://missionlocal.org/subscribe-to-the-mission-local-newsletter/
Donate to keep us writing: https://missionlocal.org/support-our-publication/
Yue Stella Yu @bystellayu.bsky.social Name’s “Yu-eh Stella Yu.” Politics reporter @calmatters.org | Alum @BridgeMichigan @Tennessean @OpenSecretsDC | Fight lies. | #Mizzou #GoPackGo
Lia Russell @liaoffleash.bsky.social Gavin Newsom reporter @sacbee.com. Priors: The Baltimore Sun, Bangor Daily News. “Shockingly good at ferreting out detailed personal info.”
Kristina Bas Hamilton @kbashamilton.bsky.social Building worker power #CAPolitics #CALeg #CABudget | Host of Blueprint for California Advocates Podcast - www.blueprint-pod.com | Author of Changemaker - www.kbhadvocacy.com/change maker
🐉 are my spirit animal
Jenavieve Hatch Barrett @jenavieve.bsky.social SAHM currently
Jason Sisney 🏳️🌈 @jasonsisney.bsky.social #CABudget advisor. Views=my own. | #CALeg | Olympic history and finance | he/him/his
Andrew Sheeler @andrewsheeler.bsky.social Montana-born. Alaska-raised. Now California-dreamin'. Former journalist, current union rabblerouser.
He/Him. 🏳🌈
Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social Co-Founder @ Street Plans | Co-Author #TacticalUrbanism, Smart Growth Manual, Streets for Pandemic Response + Recovery | Board Member @ Congress for New Urbanism | Creator Open_Streets Project | Léo + Luca’s dad | 📍 Brooklyn, NY 🚲 🚶 🚌 🌆
Jeff Speck @jeffspeck.bsky.social Urban Planner, Partner in Speck Dempsey, author of Walkable City, Walkable City Rules, and other stuff I'd like you to read. 
Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Our book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, is out now. lifeaftercars.com
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org The greatest city in the world should have the greatest streets in the world 🗽
Join us: transalt.org/connect
Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social Defender of Justice
🔹️Poverty is not a Crime, Accountability Not Persecution, Anti-Genocide, & Supporter of Many Paths to Citizenship
🔹️Land of Enchantment 🌶🔆🌵
🔹️CWRU Law Alum
Rachel Shuster, BSN, RN, CARN, CAAP, FIAAN @mynameisrachel.bsky.social Certified Addictions Registered Nurse with Lived/Living Experience. (She/Her) #HarmReduction. Thoughts are my own. Likes/RTs ≠ endorsement.
@julia4321.bsky.social @julia4321.bsky.social 
🦫 Libby Lee-Egan 🦫 @libbington.bsky.social Trans Rights! Fix your hearts or die
She/Her | Beaver partisan | graphic designer, mom, YIMBY, cargo biker, happy warrior. hire me: libbyco.art
Liza Lutzker @lizalutzker.bsky.social Safe Streets Researcher: @ucberkeleysafetrec.bsky.social
Epi PhD Candidate: @publichealth.berkeley.edu
Advocate: @walkbikeberk.bsky.social
Data-driven + Equity-focused
Views are obviously mine
UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social We conduct groundbreaking research to help prevent & end homelessness. Follow us for key insights and evidence-based solutions.
📪 Newsletter: bit.ly/BHHInews
🔗 LinkedIn: bit.ly/BHHILinkedIn
🖥️ Web: homelessness.ucsf.edu
Diane Yentel @dianeyentel.bsky.social President and CEO, National Council of Nonprofits
Former President and CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition (2016-2025)
Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social Professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. Writes about vaccines law and policy. Vaccine Advocate. Mom of two.
Simon @simbris.bsky.social Social Justice | Harm Reduction | OPC Worker | 🏳️🌈 | Mental Health | Exhausted Nurse | Random Topics | #AusPol | Coffee enthusiast
📍Ballarat | Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung lands
Rachel Cohen @rachelcohen24.bsky.social Deciding whether to let it all burn, fight for something better, or take a nap at any given moment 🙃
People, Place and Health Collective @pphcollective.bsky.social Public health research that is people centered, place oriented & data driven. We study drugs, infectious diseases + intersecting epidemics. Based at the Brown University School of Public Health.
Drug Policy Facts @drugpolicyfacts.bsky.social Drug Policy Facts is a project of the Real Reporting Foundation. We provide excerpts of current information and statistics with complete citations and links to the source materials.
https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/
Matt Curtis @mattcurtisnyc.bsky.social Here for harm reduction and public health.. Ex-government, community organizer, Eastern-Europhile, lapsed New Yorker, nowadays based in Amsterdam.
Colin T. Mahoney, Ph.D. @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social TT Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at #UNM | Faculty Research Affiliate at #CASAA | #Clinical #Research Psychologist | #PTSD, #Substance Use, #Women’s #Health Researcher | Director/PI of @mpwrlab.bsky.social | Husband & Father of 3 Littles
Eric Pedersen @ericrpedersen.bsky.social Associate Professor of #Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC. Director of Social Behavioral Research at Institute for Addiction Science. Adjunct at RAND. Editor of Research Society on Marijuana’s #Cannabis journal
Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social Peer-reviewed research on alcohol, illicit drugs, nicotine and tobacco, behavioural addictions. Owned by the Society for the Study of Addiction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13600443
Reagan Fitzke @reaganfitzke.bsky.social Clinical Psych PhD student @ UNM | substance use, trauma, harm reduction 👩🔬 | CSU & USC alum | music lover + foodie | She/her