Urban Habitat celebrated its first class of graduates from the Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute last week, holding an event at The David Brower Center in Berkeley. Family, friends and UH staffers listened to speeches by program organizer Laurie Jones Neighbors and Keynoter Bevan Duffy, a San Francisco Supervisor and attorney.

Editor's Note: Oscar Grant's death released an outpouring of emotions from the Bay Area creative community.  Visual artists of all stripes joined in the movement by creating work that showed their heartbreak and frustration. This is a slide show of art produced in reaction to Grant's death.