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Community Improvement/Capacity Building

Beth Egan

I have an MA and PhD in Educational Psychology and spent a couple of years after graduating as a Counseling Psychologist at a university counseling center. I felt that the level of contact with youth in distress was stressful and left to take a position as a research analyst in the Psychiatry Department at a university. I enjoyed the intellectual challenge and growth involved in mastering new analytic techniques but found the men in charge to be incredibly self-absorbed and unsupportive.

Moira Fordyce

; Physician, wife, mother, teacher, writer

James Sobredo

Professor in Asian American Studies at California State University, Sacramento. I am Filipino-American, born in the Philippines, raised in Guam and grew up speaking Illonggo, Chamorro, English and Tagalog. Currently livin in Northern California: Central Valley and SF Bay Area. Was a student activist in undergraduate years. Transitioned to "community organizing" during doctoral program and remain committed to the Filipino, Latino, and Asian American community. At a formal level, have been involved in "service learning" projects for last 10 years.

Lydia Santa Cruz

I am and have been a professional Realtor for over 25 years! I went to college after 30 years after having written an apparently hilarious story about how Technology Has Changed My Life. Will fill more of this as time permits. Thank you for your presence!

Mary Ann Warfield

25+ years in the Accounting field ; Preservation Historian I had been a bookkeeper in a family owned business in St. Louis for a number of years. I married in 1972. In 1982, my husband, two daughters and I moved to Kansas City so that he could start a job with the Social Security Administration. I took a job in accounting in the corporate world. My husband died from a sudden coronary in 1995.

Gerald Rossow

A retired business lawyer and corporate executive who created two law firms