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EDUCATION
- Professional and Technical Communication Certificate, San Jose State University, Spring 1997
- Data processing classes, De Anza and Foothill Community Colleges, 1980-2003
- M.S., Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling, San Jose State University, 1987
- M.A., Clinical Child Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1979
- B.A., Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1972
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND AND CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
- Technical writer/editor since 1996
- Have worked for Silicon Valley high tech companies and for non-profit organizations
- Currently employed by Plan A, a pharmaceutical management consulting firm
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Parks & Recreation Chair and Commissioner (8 years)
- Mesa de la Comunidad Founding Member
- Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association Chair (2 years), Newsletter Editor (7 years), CERT Member (4 years)
- Mountain View Trees Co-chair
- League of Women Voters Los Altos-Mountain View Former Board Member and Co-director for Natural Resources (2005-2006)
- Mountain View-Whisman School District Surplus Property Committee (7-11 Committee)
- Landels, Slater, Graham PTA Board Member
- Landels and Graham PTA Newsletter Editor
- Mountain View High School Music Parents Board Member and Newsletter Editor
- Mountain View High School Site Council Member
- Leadership Mountain View graduate (Class of 1996)
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
- Came to California as an immigrant in 1980
- Have lived in Mountain View since 1983, first as a renter and now as a homeowner
- Became a U.S. citizen in 1993
- Married
- Raised three children in Mountain View (ages 24, 20, 16)
- Children attended public schools in Mountain View
- Lived on four continents and speak six languages
- Avid gardener
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