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CURRENT POSITIONS & INVOLVEMENTS:
- Pacific Palisades Dem Club member since 1975.
Current Board Member.
Coordinated Presidential Candidate Proxy Forum 2008
- Progressive Democrats of LA
Healthcare, Endorsements, Education committees.
Legislative-Constituent Lobbying in LA, DC, Texas,
Election Issues
- 41st AD Delegate to Californa Democratic Party
State Conventions- active in Resolutions and Platform.
Progressive Caucus Member: Wrote and Lobbied for
resolution to rescind military recruitment section 9528
of "No Child Left Behind"Act 2003.
- UTLA Human Rights Committee: CAMS (coalition Against
Militarization of Schools. Steering Committee, Counter
Recruitment, OPT OUT Activist
- Healthcare for All- One Care Now (SB 840)
Activist/Outreach/upcoming Speakers Program
- Palisadians for Peace-since 2001
Peace marches, Vigils, Speakers Program, Events &
Forums Committee, High School Counter Recruitment,
Military Recruitment Center Picketing/Hiroshima Exhibit.
Networking, Lobbying, Outreach, Organization, Activities, Actions with: United for Justice & Peace, American Friends Service, Office of the Americas, CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families, Camp Casey Peace Institute,
Texas. Women in Black, Addicted to War, Arlington West
RECENT POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS:
- 2000-Al Gore for President, Phone banking/Tabling
- 2004-John Kerry, Presidential Race
Voter Reg./ HQ assistance/Tabling/phone Bank
Precinct Walking/Voter assistance, Nevada + 4 weekends
- 2005-Bill Rosendahl, LA City Council, District 11-
phone bank/tabling chair-Westside,Palisades, Brentwood
- 2006-Marcy Winograd, Congressional Primary-CA 36
Tabling Coordinator/Outreach/Precinct walking/PhoneBank
- 2008-Fran Pavley, State Senate SD 23
Phone Bank +home call coordinator from Westside office.
- Other: Burke 1976, Mercer 1997, Harman 1998, Villaraigosa 2005, As a youth: JFK, RFK, LB Johnson, Salinger, Cranston, EDmund Brown, Tom Bradley, Cesar Chavez-United Farm Workers
PAST COMMUNITY/SOCIAL SERVICE/Peace & Justice INVOLVEMENT:
- 1975-1985 Palisades Residents Association- Environment
- 1975-1983 National Women's Political Caucus
- 1982-1985 Red Cross/Latino Immunization Project
- 1983-2000 LAUSD-Palisades Education Foundation Board,
Student Support Services, Family-School Partnership
Representative. K-12 Parent Outreach, Booster Clubs,
School Governance Councils, PTA,Tutoring, Mental Health
Services, After School Program Coordinator, Special
Programs, Speakers, Volunteer Coordinator, Human
Relations, Teacher Support
- 1990's ZAP-Zero Air Pollution Activist
- 2001- current Palisadians for Peace
- 2005 & 2006 Camp Casey Peace Institute,Crawford Texas
- 2005 Common Ground Clinic RN Volunteer, New Orleans.
Hurricaine Katrina Relief
- 2006 World Social Forum, Venezuela. Global Exchange.
Education,Healthcare,Community Councils
- 2007 United for Peace and Justice. California Delegation Coordinator to DC Congressional Lobbying. Distributed "Addicted to War/Arlington West" materials to all state delegations.
- 2007 School of the America's Watch Vigil Ft. Benning, GA.
AWARDS:
- 1964- American Legion Citizenship Award
- 1969- Ms. Teen Citizen +Playa del Rey/Westchester
- 1972- Deans List UCLA/ BA Psychology & Sociology
- 1982 to 1985 - Red Cross Volunteer- AppreciationRecognition
- 1985-1998 California PTA- Honorary Service Award,
Continuing Service Award, Golden Oak Award, Very Special
Person Award
- 1993 "Sparkplug" Award Pacific Palisades Community Council
- 1994 "Above & Beyond" Community Volunteer Award.
Associated Administrators of Los Angeles
- 2000 "Golden Apple " Outstanding Service Distict 4,
Los Angeles Unified School District
- 2006 +Democrat of the Year,Pacific Palisades Democratic
Club
- 2008- Democrat of the Year, 41st AD, LA County Democratic
Party
EMPLOYMENT:
- 1969-1973 UCLA- Student Housing Food Services
- 1973-1976 UCLA- Research Associate, Dept. Psychiatry/
NeuroPsychiatric Institute
- 1978 Registered Nurse, Santa Monica Community Hospital
- 1985-1992 West District Clinic Nurse, LA County Public
Health Dept.
- 1998-2000 Student Support Services/Tutoring Coordinator
LAUSD/Palisades Charter Schools
- 1987-present Screen Actors Guild
FAMILY:
Married 33 Years: husband Dewey Cruise, son Devin Cruise,
daughter Genevieve Cruise, 3 cats, and Mother, three sisters, one brother, nephews, nieces, inlaws galore!
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