My roots are from the old Union shipping port of Coos Bay. My mother was a hard working single mom of three.  She was a union school teacher and took every opportunity to teach me what it meant to be union and to respect union ideals. I learned the importance of; having a union collective bargaining contract, binding arbitration, and that the real meat and potatoes was being able to speak to management with one collective voice.  I learned that; wages, health and welfare, hours and overtime, sick leave, and vacation days are all gravy.

I’ve been a chef and a landscaper.  I picked up most of my Spanish while plying those trades and while volunteering with the Centro por Refugiados de Centroamerica (a run through the Episcopal church during the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua.) During that same time I worked as an online advocate for Monterey Rape Crisis, where I learned a lot about getting people to resources, and helping them towards empowerment.

I worked three years with SEIU Local# 49 as a janitor for Best Building Maintenance an the last twelve years I have spent working with IATSE Local#28 as a union stagehand.  I am excited to be working for the members of UFCW555.

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