- Party: Green
- Occupation: Human Rights Activist
- Founding Director of the San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange
- Focusing on changing the labor and environmental practices of U.S. multinational corporations
- Instrumental in organizing protests against the World Trade Organization
- Worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa
- Masters degrees in Public Health and Economics
- Fluent in Spanish
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Living Wage - Raise the minimum wage to a "living wage" and guarantee all our people the right to a healthy, dignified standard of living
- Schools not Prisons - Reaffirm our commitment to free public education, recognize teachers as cherished professionals, and invest in schools not jails
- Electoral Reform - Public financing of political campaigns, free media access, end soft money donations and change to proportional representation
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- Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate and Green Party Candidate for President
- Jim Hightower, Author, Radio Host
- Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias, former President, American Public Health Assoc.
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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
