Miya Saika Chen, a former staffer for Nikki Fortunato Bas, will be Lee’s right-hand person in the mayor’s office.

Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee has chosen a local progressive leader with experience in the Obama administration as her chief of staff, the first official hire in her office that signals how Lee will ...

Incoming Oakland mayor Barbara Lee has named Miya Saika Chen as her chief of staff. Saika Chen is an Oakland native and a political insider having served as a senion advisor in the Obama ...