I’m Nick Harvey. I’m a lifelong resident of District 4 in San Ramon, and a product of San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD) public schools. I enjoy so many things about our community: taking advantage of our ample access to open space and trails, memories of playing cricket with my neighbors as a kid, earning Eagle Scout, going to the Art and Wind Festival and Valley Pride, assisting local historical research while working at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in high school, and so much more!

Despite never holding elected office before, I’ve already made plenty of change in our community–and I’ll continue that change if elected to City Council for District 4.

While at Cal High, I interned at San Ramon City Hall to gain hands-on experience in local government. I also pushed for positive policy change in our school district, including protecting student data privacy and allowing students to take AP exams for courses they were self-studying. I created and led Cal High’s first-ever participatory budgeting program, which allowed students to vote on how to allocate a portion of the school library’s budget, likely the first-ever participatory budgeting project in the Tri-Valley. This experience in strengthening our community’s participatory democracy provides a concrete foundation I will build on to push for a city where residents help shape policy at a deeper level than just voting every couple of years.

I was also an inaugural member of the SRVUSD Student Senate. While on the Senate, I led a successful grassroot effort to seat a student member on the Contra Costa County Board of Education for the first time ever.

After graduating from Cal High, I went to Stanford University, where I had further hands-on experience with local and state policymaking.

• I worked with a team to write a five-year implementation plan for expanding electric vehicle charger access in the Bay Area city of Pacifica.
• I interned with the City of New York in the spring of 2025, where I interviewed community members and developed a report on how New York can better support the language access needs of New Yorkers who need to access city services and information in languages other than English.
• I led the AB 873 campaign for the education advocacy group GENup, which included convincing the SRVUSD Board of Trustees to formally support the bill. Through this effort, I contributed to the passage of a bill in the California legislature that now requires public school students to receive education on how to scrutinize the validity of online information.

These experiences will allow me to be more effective as a City Councilmember. I will use my experience with EV charger implementation in Pacifica to push for the City of San Ramon to meet its Climate Action Plan and reduce carbon emissions in our city. My Stanford Urban Studies capstone project, where I found that neurodivergent design guidelines are more effective when actually designed by neurodivergent people, has given me ideas to push the policy lever to better support disabled people in San Ramon. And my time working on language access policy in New York will be helpful in developing a language access policy for San Ramon, a city where one in eight people have limited English proficiency.

My roots in San Ramon run deep, as does the list of policy accomplishments I’ve already achieved in our community. As City Councilmember, I will continue building the San Ramon we all deserve.