 I am running for the Tacoma Civil Service Board to restore balance and fairness to the board. The board should never be a rubber stamp for the wishes of the city human resources department. I will work with other members of the board to see to it that all city employees receive fair and equal treatment. All too often the employees and their unions prefer to use arbitration over a hearing by the board. By providing greater balance on the board, employees will resume appeals to the board, which are less costly to the city than arbitration. This board sets the rules concerning city employment and at present is not working to refine those rules. |
• Over ten years experience as a civil rights activist
• Educator for Tacoma Public Schools, four years
• Political Organizer for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Washington, 2010 election.
• Elected Washington Trustee of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association• Citizen Lobbyist, working with state legislators for a Board on Geographic Names
• State Party's Affirmative Action Committee, six years. Currently on the Technology Committee
• Served on the Change Innovation and Achievement Committee (CIA) for the Washington Education Association. (WEA)
• Current member, Pierce County Central Labor Council and it's Education Committee and Tacoma APRI
• Founder, Pierce County Pride at Work Chapter
• Serves as the Democratic State Committee Woman from the 27th Legislative District
• Pierce County Democrats Affirmative Action Committee two years, Chair two years.
• 2007, Elected as 6th Congressional Dist. representative to the state democrats executive board.
• 2006, 26th LD State Council Woman
• Campaign Manager for the successful 2006 Tacoma School Dist. Levy
• Hired by the coordinated Campaign as the 26th LD Field Organizer, 2004
• 2004, Mason County Democrats Outreach award
• Water Resource Inventory Area 14 (WIRA 14,) four years
• Southwest Puget Sound Watershed Council, four years.