Photos: At our Open Office, a chance to meet, catch up

19112760854_1e4c817d61_h — Berkeleyside contributors (l to r): Alix Wall, Kim Aronson and Anna Mindess. In the background: Berkeleyside co-founders Lance Knobel and Tracey Taylor. Photo: Nancy Rubin

Thank you to all of you who came to Berkeleyside’s latest Open Office on Wednesday evening at WeWork Berkeley, where Berkeleyside has its HQ. It was lovely to see so many of our talented contributors there — including Nancy Rubin who took all the photographs published here — as well as many loyal readers and members.

(If you spot someone in the photos who hasn’t been identified in the caption, let us know and we’ll update it.)

Until the next time!

19114421603_589831c838_h — Berkeleyside contributing photographers Ira Serkes and Pete Rosos. Trena Cleland is in the background. Photo: Nancy Rubin

19112754634_80a80439e3_b — Amanda Myers, West Branch Berkeley Library Supervisor, speaks with Paul Rauber, executive editor of Sierra Magazine. Photo: Nancy Rubin

19114425913_0865713086_h — Left to right: David Gerber, Sarah Howard, and Berkeleyside contributor Andy Gilbert. Photo: Nancy Rubin

19547282578_3942d0c2a6_h — Playwright Carol Lashof (left), Susan Helmrich, wellness coach and director of Swim Across America SF (center) and Berkeleyside contributing photographer Bill Newton (right). Photo: Nancy Rubin

19547290148_453cc3ab82_b — UC Berkeley’s Rita Maran talking with Berkeleyside co-founder Lance Knobel. Photo: Nancy Rubin

19547292680_fa0eeee458_h — EBMUD director Andy Katz (right). Photo: Nancy Rubin

19547313840_52e46b5a49_h — Berkeley Police officers Jennifer Coats and Byron White. Photo: Nancy Rubin

Sayuri Kimbell from Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College. Photo: Nancy Rubin

Meleah Hall, (left), who worked on the Measure D campaign and Jennifer Brown (right), chair of the Berkeley Soda Tax panel. Photo: Nancy Rubin

19709140416_128a86109b_z — Berkeleyside contributing writers Mary Flaherty (left) and Sylvia Rubin. Photo: Nancy Rubin

Left to right: Berkeleyside contributor Elaine Miller Bond; Berkeleyside intern Francesca Paris; Berkeleyside's Emilie Raguso and Kate Willams. Photo: Nancy Rubin — Left to right: Berkeleyside contributor Elaine Miller Bond; Berkeleyside intern Francesca Paris; Berkeleyside’s Senior Reporter Emilie Raguso and Nosh editor Kate Williams. Photo: Nancy Rubin

19728120352_f38def9cb0_h — Left to right: Berkeleyside co-founder Lance Knobel, David Gerber and Barbara Hanna. Photo: Nancy Rubin

Book editor Alan Rinzler. Photo: Nancy Rubin

See Nancy Rubin’s full set of photos.

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Tracey Taylor