Keith Tanner

I have had the good fortune to live and work around the world, doing a variety of things I have enjoyed while engaging with great people.

In a way, my life has come full circle, as I have returned to my native state of California. I am currently working on long range planning with the Sustainable Streets Division of the SFMTA.

My life has hardly followed a simple, straightforward path. I moved from California to the Midwest to study cinema and English at Northwestern University. Four years in Chicago (and a semester in Prague) gave me a love for great cities, and I moved after graduation to Boston. Here I worked in education, which continued for the next two years with teaching stints in Thailand and then France.

In 2008 I relocated to a place that had always felt like home--San Francisco. Though my background was in education, I pursued my passion for sustainable development and city planning through work in the private and public sector here. In 2011 I took the next professional step and went back to school at MIT for my Master in City Planning. In addition to coursework focused on environmental planning, I assisted a professor analyzing nationwide sustainability initiatives, composed a thesis investigating water transactions in California, and worked over the summer in Chile on a sustainable wine certification program.

After graduating in June 2013, I spent a summer working in Israel. By January 2014 I had returned to the Bay Area: Home sweet home!