Candidate for
Green Party County Council; County of Los Angeles; Supervisorial District 3

5. What other organizations are you active with?

Sierra Club; California League of Conservation Voters; American Civil Liberties Union; California Voter Empowerment Circle; Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project; League of Women Voters; Local Government Commission (March 2004 water conservation panelist).

6. What local community organizations are you active with?

Mayor pro tem, City of Santa Monica (and City Council liaison to the Environmental Task Force, Planning, Housing and Arts Commissions); Westside Council of Governments; Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights (former steering committee member); Santa Monicans Allied for Responsible Tourism (steering committee); Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Advisory Committee; Wilshire/Montana Neighborhood Coalition (former chair); long-time Ballona Wetlands activist.

7. Please attach your resume or biography.

I've lived in Santa Monica for 28 years, but was born just outside New York City. My family moved to New Haven when I was 13. I grew passionately involved in the campus radio station while I was at Yale, and broadcasting became my first career.

Radio brought me to California in 1973 and then to KROQ, eventually as general manager. When the suits took over FM, I became creative director of an L.A. ad agency, did numerous voice-overs, and in time owned a small recording studio on Santa Monica's Main Street.

Meanwhile, way back in 1982, I went online with my vintage Apple II computer and have been using email daily ever since. For years, I published an international online newsletter on a network called "The Source," later bought by CompuServe, in turn subsumed into AOL.

I consulted on the formation of Santa Monica's Public Electronic Network, PEN, and was founding chair of the PEN Users' Group. PEN was where I first became a local activist, working on projects like SHWASHLOCK (SHowers, WASHers and LOCKers for job-seeking homeless) and opposition to a luxury hotel on the beach at 415 PCH.

Volunteering my computer skills to Santa Monica schools led to my current career as Macintosh consultant to our School District as well as to local social service agencies, businesses and individuals.

I've served on the SMMUSD technology advisory committee, the Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights steering committee, the Task Force to Restore Barnum Hall (at Samohi), Santa Monica's Telecommunications Working Group and as Chair of the Wilshire/Montana Neighborhood Coalition. Before I was elected to City Council I wrote for local newspapers on housing, community and communications issues.