I have had a colorful life. Until I came to teach at SRJC, my main vocation had been as a theater director. I have also worked as a graphic artist, nurse, stage designer, coffeehouse manager (and folksinger-back in the day).

Prior to returning to finish my degree I spent 20 years in theater as producer/director in both Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. I have directed a lot of Shakespeare, and plays such as Pygmalion, Trojan Women, Antigone, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Miracle Worker, The Lady's Not For Burning, Harvey.
Director of Isla Vista Community Theater from 1978-1988, and General Manager of Borsodi's Coffeehouse (also in Isla Vista, California) from 1986-89.

In 1988, the Coffeehouse was sold and closed and I migrated north in search of a new direction. I found it at Santa Rosa Junior College where I re-entered in the Art Department as a studio major, concentrating in painting/printmaking, but finding employment and new skills in the Computer Art/Graphic Design areas with Max Hein and John Watrous.
Encouraged by mentors at SRJC I continued on to Sonoma State University where I received a BA in Art History and then an Interdisciplinary Masters in American Multicultural Art. My thesis: Significant Others:North American Non-white Ethnicities, Histories and Cultures, is still used as a resource in SSU's American Art History Classes.

Graduating in August of 1997, I was hired by the Humanities Department at Santa Rosa Junior College and began teaching in Jan 1998.
Presently, I chair SRJC's Multicultural Events Committee here and have been involved with both SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) and the Valuing Diversity training programs on campus.

Instructor: Art History and Arts Technology at Sonoma State.
Western Humanities and American Art History (distance ed courses), University of St. Francis, Joliet Illinois and Art 18A, Computer Art, at SRJC.
Summer 2000: participant in the Ford Foundation Conference on Teaching Africa.
In 2001 I participated in the Great teaching Seminar in Santa Barbara, California

And in August of 2000:became a full time in Humanities/ITDS.
In Summer 2003 I participated in National SEED training, San Anselmo, California
I received early Tenure in order to begin as Department Chair in Spring 2004.

I have served on Cluster Tech Review committee for curriculum since it's beginning in 2004.
Last Spring (2008) I was awarded the Academic Senate's award for Outstanding Contribution to Curriculum Development for my work in creating a set of global curricula for Humanities.

This last summer (2008) I spent a month in Portland Oregon at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication as an intern. Along with 35 interns from all over the globe we worked with teaching faculty and assisted students in the ICC's summer program at Reed College. I met some fabulous people there and remain in contact with several of them through my Facebook page. See more about me on Facebook!

When Humanities and Religious Studies was merged with Philosophy, I stepped down as chair and now function as Discipline Coordinator for Humanities.