Serves on the Skagit Transit Citizens Advisory Committee (www.skat.org)
Active Participant in Urban Village Neighborhood Planning, Central Area Seattle, in the 1990’s, with the Miller-Madison Neighborhood Council
School Counselor and Special Education Teacher, Seattle Public Schools, starting 1987
Worked at Mount Vernon High School, Contract-based Credit Program, Spring, 2006
Small Business Owner since 1981 with New Seattle Massage, Inc., a Cooperative business which won a Rochdale Award in 1991
In Mount Vernon, currently practitioner/owner of Skagit Valley Healing Arts Member of the Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce Currently volunteering on the Main Street program in downtown Mount Vernon on the Design Committee (For more information about the Main Street approach to revitalization of small cities, see (www. mainstreet.org) Founder of the Turning Institute, a nonprofit organization whose mission is support and advocacy for family caregivers. (www.turninginstitute.org)