Candidate for
Member, Board of Supervisors; County of San Francisco; Supervisorial District 6

I am a union organizer, legislative aide, elections and human rights advocate, and ethics attorney. I am a graduate of UC Hastings and practiced two years as an ethics and campaign attorney. For the past two years, I was Legislative Aide to Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, where I delivered City services to the people of San Francisco, and drafted legislation and policy initiatives creating hundreds of new jobs in the bio-tech and film industries. While at the Board, I also served as shop steward and negotiation team member for Local 21, Professional & Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO.

Prior to working at the Board, I served as an international election and human rights advocate for President Jimmy Carter's The Carter Center, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, (the unofficial international arm of the Democratic Party) where I spent years monitoring elections and providing support to fledgling democracy movements in South Africa, Liberia, Cambodia, Paraguay and Zambia. I also served as the Director of Special Projects for the Screen Actors Guild, where I was responsible for contract campaign activities and strategic organizing, including a successful campaign to unionize the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and Rupert Murdock's Fox Kids Network.

I was the lead local advance coordinator for all of Clinton/Gore's 1992 New Mexico campaign events, including six principal events, and was a regional coordinator for the California Democratic Party/Clinton-Gore Coordinated Campaign in 1996, responsible for registering over 9,000 new Democrats.