Jeff Hobson

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Jeff Hobson is Deputy Director for TransForm. By combining high-quality policy analysis with coalition building and strategic media efforts, TransForm has become a powerful voice for world class transit and walkable communities in the Bay Area and beyond. TransForm's campaigns have helped to raise over $6 billion for sustainable and socially-just transportation and to establish ground-breaking policies linking transportation and land use planning.

Jeff leads TransForm's work at the regional and local scales. He has been involved in three previous Regional Transportation Plans (RTPs). He is now leading efforts to influence the current RTP and the region's Sustainable Communities Strategy called for by SB 375, California's ground-breaking climate change law.

Jeff helped found and coordinated the Great Communities Collaborative, which brings together a wide variety of stakeholders to help communities plan for neighborhoods near transit. Jeff also helped shape and win voter approval of transportation funding measures in several Bay Area counties, led efforts to win transportation solutions for low-income residents, and authored seven TransForm reports, including the Access Now! guide to transportation decision-making.

Before joining TransForm in 1998, Jeff worked on environmental justice and energy efficiency in the private, government, and non-profit sectors. He holds a Master's degree from the Energy and Resources Group at U.C. Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University.

Jeff and his partner Kim Seashore enjoy raising two young children and learning to see streets through the eyes of a 10-year-old bicyclist.