Describe any previous branch positions and years you served.
Silicon Valley Branch Public Policy Co-chair 2024-2025.
Describe any AAUW California positions and years you served.
AAUW California Board of Directors and Public Policy Co-Chair, 2023-205.
Talk about any AAUW California conventions you attended in the last five years.
Co-led the Bi-monthly Public Policy Peer Group Meetings 2023-2025.
Participated in the AAUW California Annual Event 2024.
Attended multiple National and California webinars.
Presented Lobby Days training webinars 2022, 2023, 2024.
Participated in Lobby Days 2021, 2022.
Led Lobby Days 2023, 2024.
Presented the Project 2025 webinar together with Missy Maceyko 2024
Talk about any pertinent community activities or connections and their corresponding dates.
AAUW California Public Policy has been my main focus and passion since 2021.
Describe your employment/professional experience, including current employment.
I have been retired for 5 years. Early in my career, I was an engineer in aerospace industry for 8.5 years. I then spent 24 years as a Client Relations/Account Manager in the Tech Industry before retiring in late 2019.
Describe any other special skills or experience.
I have a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, and I am an effective communicator. I believe the most important thing I bring is my passion for public policy and legislative activism to advance gender equity and social justice.
Explain how you will incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion in your plans.
Public policy appeals to a young and diverse group of people who feel strongly about equity and justice and want to take action to make a difference in the world. The internship program which Missy Maceyko and I piloted this year has been a huge success. We have three fabulous interns from diverse backgrounds who have been making important contributions to AAUW California’s Public Policy program. I hope to expand on this success and continue reaching more young, diverse people to join us. Their involvement will make us stronger and better, and will enable us to stay relevant and keep reaching an ever-wider community.
Give your reasons for running for this office.
Over the last two years as co-chair of the Public Policy Committee, it has been my privilege to support our branches in the all the important public policy work that they are doing. Missy Maceyko and I have put a number of resources in place to support our members in their activism, and we plan to continue building on these. Thanks to the work of the Public Policy Committee and our wonderful Legislative Advocate, we have successfully advanced some very important legislation. The current political climate is a challenging one, but we will continue working to advance legislation by bringing the force of AAUW California to make the state a better, safer, more equitable place for women and girls.