Stockton EJ Education and Advocacy

I have been asked to consider running for elected office in the City of Stockton in District 5 (the Greater Downtown mostly and East Stockton). I have been active in my community since moving back to Stockton. First on overconcentration of alcohol and tobacco retailers, then with the Sierra Club, Delta-Sierra Group where I serve as Conservation Chair. I walk a lot to get downtown through neighborhoods that need more than the 250+ ASK Stockton requests I have put in within the last year. One day I said YES but NO Money. I am running for District 5 my date to turn in my nomination papers is 2.26.2026. Regardless of whether or not the voters select me to represent I will continue my good environmental justice work because my family's slogan is what do workers do? WORK. When do we stop working? When we are dead:) Peace.

As we go about our day, we notice many things and I would like to challenge you to start noticing factors that affect climate and your environment and consider what you can do to make improvements.

Conservation News - updated letters and actions

Leave No Trace

Plastics come from fossil fuels that trapped carbon from the atmosphere millions of years ago. We extract fossil fuels - your teacher says "Keep it in the ground". Consider ways that you could reduce plastic use.
Plastics video whole world
Plastics video global treaty plea
Plastics action

Biomass combustion involves cutting down trees that store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using PHOTOSYNTHESIS POWER, pelletizing which is polluting, and then combustion which is polluting before creating electricity.

I was lucky to have a backpacking class in Summer School from Mr. Lathrop back in the late 1970s in Manteca with a trip to Yosemite at the end so I loved nature early, in awe. I went on to earn a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Indiana, Bloomington when I was amazed at metabolic activity of microorganisms.

I was finishing up a Master's of Science in Stockton and on a break went to work for McCormick and Baxter Creosoting Company as a quality control chemist and learned about industrial pollution. After turning myself in to the authorities for having once participated I became a Registered Environmental Health Specialist in California and worked for many years regulating the clean up of contaminated sites.

I move from Stockton to Sacramento to learn more about water, earning a Master of Science in Hydrologic Sciences from the University of California, Davis.

I continue to work in environmental science, commenting on environmental projects which continue to put profits over people. The residents of Stockton continue to be harmed from new and legacy sources of pollution.