Elected to the Senate in 2024, Senator Arreguín represents District 7, which includes Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Hercules, Oakland, Piedmont, Pinole, Richmond, and San Pablo.

He previously served for 8 years as the first Latino Mayor of Berkeley. Arreguín led the city through the first Trump term and the COVID pandemic. He oversaw Berkeley’s biggest housing boom in 50 years, the construction of its largest ever affordable housing development, and its biggest ever investment in tenant protections. His policies helped reduce unsheltered homelessness by 45 percent.

Arreguín strengthened Berkeley’s sanctuary city policies to protect our undocumented communities, partnered with Planned Parenthood to make Berkeley a sanctuary city for reproductive health and gender-affirming care, and created the United Against Hate campaign to fight back against hate groups. He helped hire more police officers while increasing police oversight, invested in violence prevention, and advanced reforms to shift mental health calls from police to trained social workers. And he combatted climate change locally with groundbreaking environmental leadership.

Senator Arreguin also previously served as President of the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area’s regional government, representing all 101 cities and 9 counties.

The son and grandson of migrant farmworkers, Senator Arreguín started fighting for justice at 10 years old, when he marched with Dolores Huerta for farmworkers’ rights. He’s been at it ever since.

A lifelong renter, he lives in Oakland. A proud alumni of UC Berkeley, he’s the first in his family to graduate college.