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I am a teacher and arts commissioner in Sunnyvale. I have an M.A. from Portland State in Oregon, and a B.A. from Rider in New Jersey-- both in English. My experience is in education, research, and volunteer work. I have family all over the Bay Area, so I know this area very well. I want to see women in government, at all levels. I expected a female president twenty years ago. She is long overdue.
TEACHING: My parents were teachers, as were two of my grandparents, and one great grandparent. I have taught Head Start in Philadelphia, college classes in Portland, and English as a Second Language in Sunnyvale. I believe in education.
MY VOLUNTEER WORK: I worked in the Public Affairs Office of the National Museum of American History, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. S.I. Is like a university and a circus, combined. I worked with college interns and the public. This was a lot of fun.
I also worked at the Getty Museum in Malibu. I worked in the library (some books still on vellum) and the public relations office. I helped write the first Getty guidebook for children. This is the old Getty, which is in the form of an Italian Villa covered by ashes 2,000 years ago. I felt like a time traveler every time I went there.
In addition, I am part of the volunteer-run Arts Commission. There are five of us. We review public art works. Sunnyvale is full of public art. If you use the library, you will see a life sized statue of a young man "out to lunch." He's eating a hamburger and reading a book in Spanish.
MY TRAVELS: I have visited all fifty states and lived in about a dozen. Here in California, I have lived in Santa Monica, San Jose, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale.
The United States is beautiful and fascinating. Americans-new and old- are usually kind, generous, courageous, and funny. Always ask the people who live there what is going on- good and bad.
Sunnyvale needs all of us, working together, to survive and prosper in this unpredictable global economy. I will represent the community of
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