Jamie Joyce

Jamie Joyce manages a historic Berkeley building that she opens for community theater, choir rehearsals, weddings, blood drives and memorials.¹ She also serves on the Sand Mandala Foundation's art grants committee and makes lightning pattern art with physicist friends using a particle accelerator.¹

Her mother left school at thirteen to work; Joyce left the University of Central Florida before completing her degree.¹ Joyce worked in childcare, her uncle's shoe store and a university research lab, advancing from receptionist to administrator.²

Joyce founded the Society Library, a nonprofit developing research tools for public access to government information.¹ In 2023, she helped lead an Ottawa workshop for government officials about using AI to make public records more accessible and support policy work.³ The session addressed document organization, public input and the possibilities of using technology in government services.³

Her proposed MAD Act would impose AI safeguards, limits on surveillance and stronger political money disclosure; it is her campaign's proposed legislation.² She also supports affordable healthcare and housing, stronger public services and higher teacher pay.¹ Joyce and incumbent Lateefah Simon, both Democrats, are the November finalists.²