People of Oakland Unwrapped

Erin Kilmer Neel
Director
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Erin is a graduate of MIT's Master of City Planning program, where she worked with several community development and economic development corporations and developed neighborhood revitalization plans, performed neighborhood economic analyses, and conducted research on various community economic development topics. Her first job after leaving MIT was Program Manager at California Resources and Training (CARAT), an Oakland-based non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of training and consulting provided to small businesses throughout California.

Before MIT, Erin spent several years working in technology training, instructional design and graphic design, most recently as Manager of Web Information Design at Oracle Corporation. There, she managed a team responsible for developing technology training for Oracle's sales force. She also worked in Oracle's Media Training Solutions group as a Project Manager. Prior to Oracle, Erin was a Software Trainer with New Horizons Computer Learning Centers and an Instructional and Graphic Designer with Educational Management Group in Scottsdale.

Her passion for community development arose out of the juxtaposition of her life in Northern California and the lives she observed in her travels through southeast Asia. Her ardent belief in the social, economic, social, and political impact of community ownership and control of resources strengthened during her time as a volunteer in Thailand, where she helped build grassroots, community-owned eco-tourism villages.

She is head over heels in love with her husband Beau Kilmer, and is very very happy he has finally returned to Oakland after a year of grad school-induced separation.

Annie Campbell Washington
Founding Board Member
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Annie is an enthusiastic advocate of Oakland and the people who live, work and create here. She volunteers her time as a founding Board member of Oakland Unwrapped because she believes that by supporting artists and local, independent businesses she can share Oakland's inherent gifts with the world.

Annie works for the City of Oakland as an Assistant to the City Administrator. During her four and a half years with the City of Oakland, she has served as Chief of Staff to the Mayor, Assistant to the City Administrator and Budget Analyst. She believes that city government exists to serve the people and continuously looks for ways to help build a better Oakland and a more responsive government for its community.

Annie holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, Annie served as the Executive Director of the I Have a Dream Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA. Annie also worked for Intel Corporation as a product planner when the PentiumTM first arrived on the market.

Annie married Glynn Washington in Oakland's Preservation Park and they welcomed a baby girl named Bahia into the world a year later. Two and a half years later, their boy Quincy arrived. There is nowhere on earth Annie would rather raise her beautiful children than Oakland, California.

Anson Wong
Founding Board Member