Biography |
My life began in 1935 while our country had still not recovered from the Great Depression. I was influenced by my parents’ lives of economic struggle until my father’s medical practice began to flourish. Wanting to make this a better world for everyone was instilled in me at an early age.
During the 1960s and 1970s, I immersed myself in every social and political issue that I could. I contributed through art and photography. I silk screened posters, made linoleum prints and drawings that illustrated publications and articles. I lived in East Palo Alto and immersed myself in Black community issues. I was heavily involved in the women’s movement, through my art, participating in a consciousness-raising group, teaching karate classes for women, organizing child care for working parents at Stanford, attending the Indochinese and North American Women’s Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1971, and developing a Women’s History Library. I supported and participated in the Peace and Freedom Party. I made posters and marched in Anti-Vietnam War rallies with my family.
In 1969 I helped organize the Employees Union at Stanford (SEIU Local 680) and was president during the years when we won recognition from the NLRB. I have had careers as a librarian at SLAC, a union staff member, a typographer, a graphic artist, and finally, as a horticulturist. At the age of eighty-three, I am still working in a private garden designing and caring for over sixty large decorative containers.
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