Emily Lubin Loper is a Senior Vice President of Public Policy at the Bay Area Council, where she leads the Council’s transportation policy portfolio. She originally joined the Council in 2014, and remains inspired by its mission to make the Bay Area the best place to live and work.
In 2018, she advocated for the successful passage of Regional Measure 3, a $4.5 billion plan to invest in transportation projects across the Bay Area, and led the advocacy to secure significant funding for the expansion of regional ferry service in the expenditure plan. Today, she is co-leading the Connect Bay Area campaign to pass a five-county sales tax measure to avoid severe public transit service cuts while also requiring systems to deliver a better and more efficient service. She also works with innovative transportation technology companies to promote the growth of their services to improve regional mobility.
Loper has experience working in federal and local legislative offices for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu. She received a Master of Public Administration degree from the USC Price School of Public Policy and received her BA in Political Science and International Relations from UCLA. She proudly received a Bruin Excellence in Civic Engagement award from UCLA in 2023.
An East Bay native, she lives in Oakland with her husband and two sons. On weekends, you can find her cycling up the Oakland/Berkeley hills whenever she can.
