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Victoria Eisen

Victoria began her planning career as a planning consultant for Sierra County, where she wrote the county's original public transportation plan. After moving back to the Bay Area, Victoria worked as a transportation planner for the County of Sonoma before moving to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). At MTC, her projects included creating travel-demand models for the regional transportation plan, coordinating regional transportation funding in the North Bay, and leading teams that evaluated projects competing for federal transportation funding.

After six years at MTC, Victoria moved to the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) to serve as interim manager of the Bay Trail Project. Later, as principal planner, Victoria managed the agency's Smart Growth Strategy/Regional Livability Footprint project, overseeing a $1.5 million budget and the work of six consultant firms to create the first-ever land use vision for the Bay Area. Victoria left ABAG after five years, in 2002, to work as a transportation and regional planning consultant before co-founding Eisen | Letunic.

Victoria was raised in the Bay Area and has lived in Berkeley since 1981. She holds master's degrees in city planning and civil engineering, both from UC Berkeley. In 1993, the American Planning Association honored Victoria with an award for the City of Sebastopol's second-unit housing ordinance, which she developed as part of her planning master's thesis. In 2001, she received a "Clean Air Award" from the American Lung Association for her work leading ABAG's smart growth efforts.

Victoria has served as chair of the City of Berkeley's transportation commission and is currently serving on Berkeley's Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee and the Greenbelt Alliance's Infill Task Force.