- Occupation: Nurse/Educator
 - A thirty year local resident who has been trained to be a patient care advocate and to be the voice for patients and their families
 - Santa Rosa Junior College Board Trustee
 - Lecturer on the politics of health care to nurses for 20 years
 - Participant in drafting the first successful HMO reform legislation and legislation to provide the first funding for rural health clinics
 - Chairperson of the California Nurses Alliance legislative program
 - Grass roots organizer in health care since 1971 when I organized the Alianza Farmworkers Clinic in Healdsburg
  
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Top Priorities if Elected |   
- Save the hospital through affiliation with Sutter or other options
 - Maintain quality care
 - Expand services to seniors, Latinos, and women.
  
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- Candidate Statement
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I have the experience, ability and commitment necessary to preserve our community hospital to guarantee the hospital maintains the quality patient care Sonoma Valley deserves.
  
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