Candidate for
Council Member; City of Mountain View

EDUCATION

• Professional and Technical Communication Certificate, San Jose State University, Spring 1997
• Data processing classes, De Anza and Foothill Community Colleges, 1980-2003
• M.S., Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling, San Jose State University, 1987
• M.A., Clinical Child Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1979
• B.A., Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1972

• Technical writer/editor since 1996
• Have worked for Silicon Valley high tech companies and for non-profit organizations
• Currently employed by Plan A, a pharmaceutical management consulting firm

• Parks & Recreation Chair and Commissioner (8 years)
• Mesa de la Comunidad Founding Member
• Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association Chair (2 years), Newsletter Editor (7 years), CERT Member (4 years)
• Mountain View Trees Co-chair
• League of Women Voters Los Altos-Mountain View Former Board Member and Co-director for Natural Resources (2005-2006)
• Mountain View-Whisman School District Surplus Property Committee (7-11 Committee)
• Landels, Slater, Graham PTA Board Member
• Landels and Graham PTA Newsletter Editor
• Mountain View High School Music Parents Board Member and Newsletter Editor
• Mountain View High School Site Council Member
• Leadership Mountain View graduate (Class of 1996)

• Came to California as an immigrant in 1980
• Have lived in Mountain View since 1983, first as a renter and now as a homeowner
• Became a U.S. citizen in 1993
• Married
• Raised three children in Mountain View (ages 24, 20, 16)
• Children attended public schools in Mountain View
• Lived on four continents and speak six languages
• Avid gardener