Professional Experience
- Teacher — kindergarten and 1st grade
- Assistant Director, County Health Department — tobacco prevention
- Director, Women and Girls Against Tobacco
- Program Manager, federally funded behavioral health initiatives
Honors & Recognition
- Addy Award, “Fractured Fairy Tales”
- Keynote and national speaker, multiple women’s health conferences
- Speaker at the Clinton White House — women, advertising, and tobacco
- Author, tobacco chapter, Our Bodies, Ourselves
Volunteerism
- Founder & Manager, 501(c)(3) Food Bank, Calistoga Cares
- Soroptimist International Member
- Tobacco Free Napa Coalition
- Napa County Opioid Task Force
- Cape Fear Coalition for a Drug Free Tomorrow
- New Hanover, Brunswick, and Pender Opioid Task Forces
- Chairperson, Tobacco Free Challenge Racing Advisory Board
- Chairman, Mt. Diablo Unitarian Racial Justice Task Force
- Bay Area Resource Advisory Board, California Lavender Smoke Free Network
- Chairman, Ethnic-specific Tobacco Control
- Chairman, Marin YWCA Abused Women’s Services
Education
- University of Massachusetts Amherst — graduate work in Public Administration
- Graduate studies, UCLA
- Teaching Credential, University of North Carolina Wilmington
