Candidate for
Trustee; Peralta Community College District; Trustee Area 7

I have 30-plus years of activism and engagement in political, social and economic grassroots efforts. My activism centers on providing better access, opportunity and equity to African Americans in particular and to the greater community as a whole. My desire to be involved and to be an active participant in social justice was shaped in the movements of the 1960s during my teenage years. I spent many years employed in areas that have allowed my activism to continue to flourish. Vanguard Public Foundation employed me as the director of the grants program. Prior to that position, I was chief of staff to Alameda County Supervisor (Keith) Carson for over seven years.

I graduated from Merritt College with an AA in administration of justice in my mid 20's as a single parent with a small child working full-time in the evenings to attend college as a full-time day student. I transferred to Golden Gate University for a degree in pre-legal studies and became the first in my immediate family to attend and graduate from college.

I'm a native of Berkeley and graduated from Berkeley High in 1966. I have an adult daughter who is a graduate student in Education at the University of Pennsylvania.