Joseph G. Towner

Joseph G. Towner, MPA, currently serves as the Manager of Performance and Data Analytics at BART, where leadership of the District's race equity administration team has led to the creation of the first racial equity framework and a Racial Equity Action Plan template. Prior experience includes roles as a Senior Auditor for the City and County of San Francisco, where contract compliance audits were conducted, and the development of a city construction safety audit program was implemented. Inglewood's City government benefited from Towner's expertise as a Human Resources Specialist and Housing Specialist, while earlier positions included roles at Marvin Engineering, the City of Pasadena, the City of Salinas, and Monterey Peninsula Unified School District. Towner holds a Master’s of Public Administration in City Management from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics with a focus on Accounting from UC Santa Barbara.