Customer satisfaction is the key to the success of our firm. Each client is served by a team of skilled professionals, which includes principals of the firm. Whether your needs are high-level strategy, grassroots training or detailed follow up to make sure everything is running smoothly, TRAMUTOLA is with you every step of the way.
TRAMUTOLA senior staff have a minimum of 10 years experience working with both public and private sector clients. Each client is also served by our highly skilled administrative staff and account representatives, whose primary function is to help make sure your experience with TRAMUTOLA is successful. As 80% of our business is either repeat business or referrals from satisfied clients, we put great attention on customer satisfaction.
Steve Boardman
Steve handles a variety of clients including school districts, local government as well as candidates for local office. Steve received his law degree from Northeastern and his undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont. A native of Washington D.C. he was a writer for the Congressional Quarterly and later a Staff Attorney with Vermont Legal Aid. While there, Steve worked on fair housing and public benefits cases. Steve is an accomplished writer and an expert utilizing political databases. His articles on local government often appear online at PublicCEO.com.
Steve lives in San Francisco. Among his outside interests are snowboarding, camping, and reading.
Maria Gonzalez Bonneville
Maria Gonzalez Bonneville is the Executive Director of TRAMUTOLA’s organizing academy – TOLA (The Leadership and Organizing Academy). In addition to her work with TOLA, Maria also provides political strategy to select clients, helps manage electoral campaigns as well as lend her vast knowledge of fundraising and state politics to TRAMUTOLA.
Maria attended the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with a BA in Political Science. After working for several years in marketing and advertising at different Bay Area companies, Maria decided she needed a career change. She started to work for California State Treasurer and former Attorney General Bill Lockyer in 2001 as a campaign staffer. She worked for Treasurer Lockyer for ten years in different capacities and most recently left his staff to serve as campaign manager for Nadia Lockyer’s successful campaign for Alameda County Board of Supervisors, District 2.
Maria lives in Walnut Creek with her husband, Gordie, and her son, Charlie.
Tom Clifford
Tom is a Senior Consultant and a Principal of TRAMUTOLA. Tom manages a broad variety of TRAMUTOLA clients including candidates, private sector clients, political associations and governmental agencies from school districts to local government. Tom is also an attorney specializing in complex commercial litigation, public law and land use issues. He received his Masters in Public Policy from Princeton University, his law degree from the University of California’s Berkeley (Boalt) School of Law and his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley. Tom was an Assembly Fellow and a CORO Fellow. He now sits on the CORO Northern California Board of Directors.
Tom lives in the Temescal district of Oakland with his wife Anagha and their two boys. Tom is on the Executive Board of TRAMUTOLA's Organizing and Leadership Academy (TOLA) that provides intensive training in community organizing and leadership through paid scholarships and fellowships to people looking to make a positive difference in local communities. Before coming to TRAMUTOLA, Tom practiced law at Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco.
Teresa Gerringer
Teresa has been associated with Tramutola since 1999 as a client and has held leadership positions in multiple school district bond and parcel tax campaigns. Teresa has 15+ years experience in local community organizing and statewide education advocacy. She is currently in her 11th year as a member of the Lafayette School District Governing Board, where she has served twice as Board President. In addition to extensive school district and education policy experience, Teresa served as a key member of the grass roots group that led the $13M private capital campaign for the new Lafayette Library & Learning Center. Teresa earned her Bachelors degree in Public Administration at Indiana University and her Masters in Business Administration at Pepperdine University.
Teresa provides business development, marketing, communications and administrative support to the firm. Teresa and her husband, Michael, live in Lafayette with their two daughters.
Bonnie Moss
Bonnie has 25+ years experience in managing community and local government relations, marketing, and public relations. Bonnie has been associated with TRAMUTOLA for over 20 years, first as a successful candidate and local elected official, later as a long term corporate client, and now as a TRAMUTOLA Principal and Senior Consultant. Bonnie is one of California's most experienced tax election consultants having provided strategic advice and political consulting to hundreds of communities throughout California. A graduate of Wellesley College, Bonnie has directed staffs of over 100 people to achieve winning results in numerous states using TRAMUTOLA strategies.
Clients that have had the pleasure of working with Bonnie, often say that they would work with no one else. While Bonnie has considerable expertise and success managing local tax elections, public sector communications and local candidate elections, her infectious enthusiasm and unparalleled work ethic make working with Bonnie not only successful but a joy.
Ann Caponio Tramutola
With 30 years of experience in finance and accounting, including 12 years managing her own financial management firm, Ann handles all aspects of the company’s financial planning and accounting and is an owner of TRAMUTOLA and a member of the firm’s senior executive team. Born in Oakland, California, Ann has deep roots in the Bay Area. She is the 7th of 12 children of a Peace activist mother and an Oakland Union Official father. Ann worked six years as an administrator in the United Farm Workers Union where she managed budgets for UFW offices around the country. She has four grown children.
Larry Tramutola
Larry Tramutola is recognized as one of the country’s top political strategists. Larry is an expert on grassroots organizing, political strategy, and is regarded as the country’s top expert on passing difficult tax measures. Larry is an advisor to Mayors and elected officials of all levels and his list of clients includes school districts, community colleges, hospitals, healthcare organizations, cities, counties, and transit agencies. TRAMUTOLA has helped clients win over 500 elections including 254 tax elections (most requiring 66.7% voter approval) that have produced more than $30 billion in community improvements.
Larry is the author of Sidewalk Strategies – Seven Winning Steps for Candidates, Causes and Communities, which has been described as a “must read” for anyone involved in organizing or political campaigns.
Larry has provided comment and political insight for the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, and is a regular guest on National Public Radio’s Forum. He is called to speak at the University of California on an annual basis and frequently serves as a facilitator at conferences of the California School Boards Association, the Association of California Healthcare Districts, California Special Districts Association, California Library Association and the League of California Cities.
Larry graduated with distinction from Stanford University and worked for eleven years as an organizer with Cesar Chavez and the UFW. He directed the Field Operations for the California Democratic Party in two Presidential elections and was chosen as a member of the team invited to help train community leaders in South Africa in electoral organizing prior to that country’s first free elections.
Daniel Weinzveg
Daniel works on a variety of issues for TRAMUTOLA’s healthcare, school, candidate and local government clients. Prior to joining TRAMUTOLA, he worked for a Senatorial campaign in Oregon and as a field coordinator on a land use campaign in Alameda, CA. Daniel is originally from Sebastopol, CA and received a BA in History from the University of Oregon and a language certification in Spanish from the Universidad de Oviedo in Spain.
Daniel serves an an instructor and facilitator of TOLA, TRAMUTOLA's organizing and Leadership Academy. Daniel lives in Oakland. On the weekends, you will find him organizing and leading efforts to clean-up Oakland streets and volunteering on community improvement projects.