Libby Schaaf's Recommendations
Our guest staffer for picking books this month is our own Councilmember Libby Schaaf.
Born and raised in Oakland’s District 4, Libby Schaaf has centered
her life and career on building community, solving problems, and leading
change in her hometown. One of her first memories was at age five,
wearing a sandwich board to help her Mom raise money for Oakland arts
programs – she’s been at it ever since.
Libby spent her youth volunteering through countless Girl Scout
projects, at Children’s Fairyland, and as a weekly Ranger Station Aide
at Joaquin Miller Park. She graduated from Skyline High School. While an
attorney in her late 20s, she co-founded the non-profit Oakland Cares,
which organized and implemented hundreds of volunteer community
improvement projects across the city. She found her calling was in
building community, so she left her legal career at Oakland’s largest
law firm to build and run the first centralized volunteer program for
Oakland public schools at the Marcus Foster Institute.
