Candidate for
Director; West County Wastewater District

ENDORSEMENTS (PARTIAL LIST) Supervisor John Gioia State Senator Mark DeSaulnier Congressman George Miller Central Labor Council of Contra Costa County, AFL-CIO Public Employees Union, Local 1 Council 57, AFSCME Tony Thurmond, former WCCUSD Trustee and City Council, Richmond Kathy Chao-Rothberg, Vice-Mayor, San Pablo Genoveva Garcia Calloway, Council Member, San Pablo Cecilia Valdez, Council Member, San Pablo Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor, Richmond Jovanka Beckles, Vice-Mayor, Richmond Jael Myrick, Council Member, Richmond Maria Alegria, former Council Member and Mayor, Pinole Charles Ramsey, WCCUSD Trustee Randy Enos, WCCUSD Trustee Madeline Kronenberg, WCCUSD Trustee Todd Groves, WCCUSD Trustee Joe Gomes, former Council Member and Mayor San Pablo Beverly Wallace, Secretary, San Pablo Chamber of Commerce Miriam Wong, Latina Center ,Richmond Sandra Bañales, Community Violence Solutions Kristen Pursley, WCCUSD Adult Education Marcos J. Suarez, California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce John Marquez, President, Governing Board, CCC District Art Hatchett, GRIP, Social Justice Committee Michael Epstein, Attorney at Law

Past Public Service.

Community college and high school teacher 1962-1997

South West Voter Registration Drive Board of Directors 2003-2004

Grand Jury, Contra Costa County (two terms)2003, foreperson 2005

6th Annual "Narrowing the Gap" Educational conference,Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at DVC ,November 2000

Received award as a community Leader at WCCUSD "State of Our Schools", October 12, 2007

West Contra Costa Unified School District Trustee 2008-2012

WCCUSD Budget Advisory Committee, chair 2008-2012

WCCUSD Facilities Subcommittee,chair 2008-2012

WCCUSD Special Committee on High Schools, chair 2008-2012

WCCUSD Strategic Planning Core Team, Community Engagement, Accountability Task Force, Service Learning Advisory committee

Contra Costa School Board Association Treasurer 2008-2012

California Latino School Board Association Board 2011-2012

NALEO (National Association of Elected Latino Officials)

Citizen Bond Oversight Committee ,Chair

West Contra Costa County Public Education /fund, Vice President, 2008-2012

Rose the Riveter Trust, Board Member

Montalvin Manor Redevelopment Advisory Committee, Chair

Pinole AARP Chapter, President

School Site Councils (SCC) of Montalvin Manor School and Helms Middle School

Community Organizer for Faith Works, Richmond Vision, Richmond

Educator's Network of Amnesty International-USA, West Coast Chair and National Chair

Metro One Credit Union (now Travis Credit Union) Finance Advisory Committee

International Experience 1970-2012

Numerous Fact-Finding missions, delegations, commissions to Mexico and Central America (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala Nicaragua)

Gathered information on human right abuses for Americas Watch, Amnesty International -USA , Comision Internacional de Observacion por los Derechos Humanos, Comision Estatal de Derechos Humanos de Puebla,Queretaro, Chiapas and Morelos, and the Comision Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Mexico

Five fact finding delegations and election observations in El Salvador and Mexico with CISPES,Human Rights Watch and Global Exchange, San Francisco 1980 to 2008

Detained numerous times in El Salvador and jailed in Guatemala summer of 1981 for documenting human rights abuses.

Presenter of workshops on human rights and education in Queretaro, Mexico City and Puebla for the Comision de Derechos Humanos and Amnestia Internacional-Mexico

One of two presenters at the Coloquio Internacional de Educacion y los Derechos Humanos held at Puebla, Mexico, 1996,1997,1998,1999, 2000

Current Civic Engagement Friends of the San Pablo Library

San Pablo Chamber of Commerce, Vice President

Concilio Latino of West Contra Costa county, Chair WCCUSD Budget Advisory Committee

Inter-Faith Coalition for Immigrant Rights

Social Justice Committee of GRIP -Greater Richmond Interfaith Project

LCFF (Local control Funding Formula) School District Committee

Citizen committee on Rumrill Blvd and San Pablo Avenue modernization, City of San Pablo

Chair Berkeley/North East Bay Chapter ACLU of Northern California