Director
Barnali Ghosh was elected to the BART Board of Directors in November 2024. She represents District 3, which includes Richmond, El Cerrito Del Norte, El Cerrito Plaza, North Berkeley, Downtown Berkeley, and Ashby (shared with District 7) stations.
Public transit has been essential to Barnali as an immigrant who lived without a driver’s license for her first 15 years in the United States. She took BART to her first job and even to her wedding, and she remains a regular transit rider today.
Barnali served as Chair of Berkeley’s Transportation Commission and Vice-Chair of its Planning Commission, where she worked to connect housing, equity, climate goals, and pedestrian/bike safety to city transportation policies. A licensed landscape architect and project manager, she brings over twenty years of experience designing public spaces and championing environmentally sustainable solutions.
A long-time Bay Area organizer and community-builder, Barnali has also led efforts around transportation equity, arts, climate action, and local history for over two decades. She curates the award-winning South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, sharing stories of immigrant activism and solidarity in San Francisco and Berkeley.
District 3 is in both Contra Costa and Alameda Counties and includes the City of Hercules, the City of Pinole, the City of San Pablo, the City of Richmond, the City of El Cerrito, the City of Albany, the majority of the City of Berkeley including the University of California Berkeley and excepting a few neighborhoods to the South of Ashby Ave, and unincorporated parts of Contra Costa County including North Richmond and El Sobrante.