Email: bvaitla@cityofdavis.org
Map: City Council District 1
Term Ends: 2026

Bapu was elected to the Davis City Council in November 2022.

Bapu works on issues of gender inequality with Data2X, an initiative housed in the United Nations Foundation. His core interest is the relationship between social cooperation and the well-being of children. He studies why people decide to work together (or not) for mutual benefit and the effects of these decisions on public policy, political movements, and ultimately, the lives of children and youth.

Bapu was born in India and grew up in California. He holds a B.A. in Nature and Culture and a M.S. in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis, as well as a Ph.D. in international relations/political economy from Tufts University. He has received a Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Harvard University.

Bapu previously served on the City of Davis Social Services Commission and the board of directors of Cool Davis and Davis Opportunity Village.

Email: warnold@cityofdavis.org
Map: City Council District 2
Term Ends: 2024

Will is a lifelong Davis resident and was first elected to the Davis City Council in June 2016, and re-elected in November 2020.

Will is a proud graduate of Davis Senior High School, after which he attended the University of Oregon, majoring in Political Science. Will brings his public information acumen, keen historical knowledge and policy-making expertise to great effect on topics ranging from affordable housing to emergency management and transportation development

He and his wife, Nichole, live in North Davis with their three children, Reecy, Sonya and Dougie.

Will’s service to the Davis community includes:

• Chair, Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency Joint Powers Authority
• Former Chair, Yolo County Housing Authority
• Board of Directors Member, Yolo Habitat Conservancy
• Former President, Blue & White Foundation (which serves the students at Davis Senior High School)
• Former Board of Directors Member, Summer House (which provides services for adults with developmental disabilities)
• Volunteer Public Address Announcer, Davis Senior High School Football, Boys’ Basketball and Robotics Competitions

Will works as director of communications for the UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute. He previously worked as statewide media affairs manager at Caltrans. Will has been politically active in Davis for many years, managing several local and regional campaigns, and working as the district representative for State Senator Lois Wolk.

Email: dneville@cityofdavis.org
Map: City Council District 3
Term Ends: 2024

Donna was elected to the Davis City Council during a special election in June 2023. 

Donna came to Davis in 1987 to attend law school at King Hall at UC Davis. After law school, she worked for the Office of the Legislative Counsel, where she advised members of the California Legislature and their staff on two key policy areas: environmental protection and K-12 public education. She later served as chief counsel to the California State Auditor, working on performance audits of virtually every aspect of state and local government. At the State Auditor’s Office, Donna played a central role in developing and implementing the Local Government High Risk Program, which detects financial vulnerabilities in California cities and intervenes to prevent the loss of services and financial collapse. She also served on the team that developed the application and selection process for serving on the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. In 2008-2009, Donna was appointed by the former governor to serve as chief counsel to the State Board of Education.

Donna lives in Central Davis with her husband Edwin (Ted) Grosholz, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis. Their adult son graduated from Davis public schools and is now working in software development.

Donna’s contributions to the Davis community include the following:

• Member, City of Davis Planning Commission
• Board President, National Alliance on Mental Illness Yolo County 
• Former chair and member, City of Davis Finance and Budget Commission
• Former chair, Davis Joint Unified School District Measure M Bond Oversight Committee
• Pro bono legal volunteer, Parent Teacher Home Visit Project

gpartida@cityofdavis.org
City Council District 4
Term Ends: 2026

Gloria is a longtime Davis resident and was first elected to the Davis City Council in June 2018, served as Mayor from July 2020 through June 2022, and was re-elected in November 2022.

Gloria earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Davis where she majored in Zoology and worked for 30 years as a Neurobiologist before retiring in 2019. She has a long history of advocacy in the Davis community starting with disability advocacy and participation in many school and community organization boards and is a founder and chair of the Davis Phoenix Coalition which promotes community inclusion. She is currently serving as City Council liaison for the Civic Arts Commission, Human Relations Commission and Police Accountability Commission. She is currently Chair of the Yolo Solano Air Quality Management Board and a member of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council.

In addition to managing a small business with her son with a disability, Gloria is active in raising her grandson.

Awards

• Ruby Award - Davis Soroptimist Club 2019
• Indigo Award - Davis College Democrats 2019
• Pilar Andrade Award - Mexican-American Concilio of Yolo County 2018
• Multicultural Community Council Service Award - Yolo County District Attorney 2017
• Women of the Year Award - Congressman John Garamendi 2016
• City of Davis Brinley Community Service Award - City of Davis 2016
• Sacramento Pride Youth Award - Sacramento LGBT Center 2016
• The Davis Vanguard Civil Rights Award - The Davis Vanguard 2014

jchapman@cityofdavis.org
City Council District 5
Term Ends: 2024

Josh was elected to the Davis City Council in November 2020.

Josh Chapman was born and raised in Maine. Chapman earned a Bachelor of Science from New Hampshire College in 2002. Upon graduation he moved to Washington D.C. to join AmeriCorps where he served students in Southeast Washington D.C. eventually becoming the Education Director for the Metropolitan Police Boys & Girls Club. Chapman moved to San Francisco in 2005 to pursue his Master of Education degree, with a focus on equity and social justice, from San Francisco State University. During his time in San Francisco Chapman was a teacher for a non-profit organization that served students with severe mental and emotional disabilities.

In 2010 Chapman moved to South Davis with his wife, Athena, and their two sons Owen and Quentin. As the owner and manager of, Armadillo Music, a family business started by Athena’s father in 1996, Chapman became involved in downtown issues. Chapman served on the Davis Downtown Business Association Board of Directors and was the President of that board for three consecutive years and most recently served on the Downtown Plan Advisory Committee. Chapman also spent part of his time in Davis working for Suicide Prevention Yolo County.

As a father of two school-aged children Chapman volunteers in numerous capacities as a youth sports coach as well as spends volunteer hours at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School.