Howard Dyckoff has lived in Oakland for over 40 years and has been involved with many community groups, including Oakland Digital and Oakland Local, Block by Block, the East Oakland Boxing Association (EOBA), and CBE. A Brooklyn, New York, transplant, and an Aerospace Engineering graduate of NY Polytechnic, Howard also attended Laney College, where he wrote for the Laney Tower newspaper and was elected editor. Howard also attended the Starr King School at the Theological Union in Berkeley.
He has served as the Berkeley Free Clinic’s Outreach Coordinator, and also worked as an information technology professional at Chevron, Sybase, and Wells Fargo. He worked in both the 2010 and 2020 Census. Howard has been a regular contributor to Oakland Local and online publications such as TechTarget and Linux Gazette and currently writes for Oakland Voices. He currently does event photography around the Bay Area.
Starting this week, some Oakland seniors 65 and older — alongside food and agriculture essential workers, emergency workers, and education and childcare workers — will[Read more]
Amid whoops and cheers and a cacophony of car horns, Oaklanders came out to celebrate the election victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in[Read more]
With a waterfront ballpark moving closer to an Oakland reality, City government has launched an effort to bring community and business stakeholders together and also[Read more]
Residents of East Oakland are being invited to a birthday party for an infant community organization. Its been a year since the call went out[Read more]
Social Justice activists partied down on June 28 at the Oakland Progressives Party + Townie Awards at the Oakland Museum. The combined party, fundraiser, and awards[Read more]
Oakland’s annual CityCamp this Saturday brings together residents and technologists to plan and inspire Oakland’s future. The event is free and sponsored by the City[Read more]
