Margaret Abe-Koga
VTA Board Vice Chairperson

Mountain View  City Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga serves on the VTA Board of Directors representing City Group 2 (the North County Cities of Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale), having been appointed in 2010.  She is vice chairperson of the VTA Board of Directors for 2010.   Member Abe-Koga also serves on VTA’s Transit Planning and Operations Committee, Dumbarton Rail Project Policy Advisory Board, Ad Hoc Financial Recovery Committee, and the Executive Evaluation Committee.  She previously served on the VTA Policy Advisory Committee from 2007-2009 representing the City of Mountain View, and was that committee’s chairperson for 2009 and its vice chairperson for 2008.

Member Abe-Koga was elected to the Mountain View City Council in 2006 and served as mayor for 2009 and vice-mayor for 2008.

Prior civic service includes serving from 2002-2004 as an elected member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education representing Area 1, which covers Palo Alto, Mountain View, parts of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos and Sunnyvale.  She served on Mountain View’s Environmental Planning Commission and its Human Relations Commission.  She has also been an active member of several non-profit boards and community based organizations.

The daughter of Japanese immigrant parents, Member Abe-Koga is a native of the Bay Area.  She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government from Harvard University.  Upon graduation, she worked as a congressional aide for U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo in her district office for six years.  Member Abe-Koga later went on to help start the Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute at De Anza College as its Associate Director and ran a small business before taking time off to start a family.