Casey Farmer is a community development consultant. She served as the Executive Director of Alameda County’s Complete Count Committee for Census 2020 where she managed communications, community engagement, and grantmaking for the county’s first ever Census Outreach Program. She previously served as Campaign Manager, and later Communications Director to Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley). Prior to her work in the Legislature, she served as Policy Analyst and Community Liaison for Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, whose campaign she managed in 2012. Casey has also worked in philanthropy for The Rogers Family Foundation and as a high school teacher for students with learning disabilities at Youth Empowerment School (YES) in East Oakland. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco in Sociology and Public Service and also holds a Master’s degree in Education. She lives in Oakland with her college sweetheart, her two children, and her rescue pup Misty.
