Candidate for
Director; Carpinteria Valley Water District; 4 Year Term

Shirley's professional experience spans over twenty years in international trade and as an Executive Vice President specializing in start up turnkey factory installations China.   She has a Humanities  BA degree and  has always embraced a wide range of interests, particularly international business, environmental concerns  and natural history.  Shirley also served as an official Liaison for the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) under U.S. Ambassador Robert Zoellick from 2002-2003.

Seven years ago Shirley moved to Carpinteria, where her parents had lived for thirty years, to care for her aging mother. Currently retired, she is an active volunteer with the National Parks and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary doing island restoration projects, scientific plankton collections and reports and whale photo ID work for Cascadia Research.

Shirley realized her interest in and willingness to serve the water board while engaged in the community fight to protect the aquifer from slant drilling during the Measure J campaign. She became quite engaged in the battle to assist the residents and local ranchers when the Water Board voted (4-1) to promote the drilling of oil wells through the Carpinteria water basin, which some engineers felt would put our water resources at risk.