My background, interests, and experience are wide-ranging. Some I chose to pursue; some were suggested to me by life. I grew up in FL, but ever since I can remember, I wanted to live NOT in FL. By the time I was 12, I dreamed of living in California. My folks flew me out to U.C.L.A., which I loved, but then they changed their mind and said I needed to stay closer to home, so Duke was as far away as they would let me go until I graduated. But Mom and I road-tripped out to CA right after graduation. I have lived in Larkspur since 1995, when I bought my first house in Madrone Canyon with my fiancé, now my husband, Jeffrey Jones. We moved to downtown Larkspur in 2002 because four flights of steps gave too many unsavory opportunities to the twin I wasn’t watching (put that in the category of lessons learned the hard way). We’ve lived on South Green Ct. ever since. I received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and materials science with an additional major in fine art from Duke University. While I was there, I worked for the North Carolina Supercomputing Center. I then studied computer science at U.C. Berkely and worked on a N.A.S.A. astrophysics project until I got my dream job at Industrial Light and Magic in San Rafael. I worked there for ten years until I had to resign due to family demands. I had special needs twin boys and a husband who had been disabled by meningitis. One of my sons is autistic, and he is now a senior at UCLA. The other is studying computer science at COM and working for a local start-up. I chose the water district mainly because I have the technical training to add useful input into resource planning and because of the stubborn lack of diversity that has not improved much over the thirty years since I was in school. I feel driven to understand and solve problems. I think recycled water is the future. The only solution that gives us a reliable source of clean water and takes the pressure off of the environment. We need to start building this infrastructure so we are no longer beholding to our area’s inherent feast or famine weather cycles. The California government is handing out money right now to do this! Marin needs to take advantage of these sweet sweet incentives and step into the future. We start doing it now, we can do it over a longer time horizon so it’s not painful to the ratepayers. Marin is full of the smartest people; we should have the smartest solutions.
My background, interests, and experience are wide-ranging. Some I chose to pursue; some were suggested to me by life. I grew up in FL, but ever since I can remember, I wanted to live NOT in FL. By the time I was 12, I dreamed of living in California. My folks flew me out to U.C.L.A., which I loved, but then they changed their mind and said I needed to stay closer to home, so Duke was as far away as they would let me go until I graduated. But Mom and I road-tripped out to CA right after graduation. I have lived in Larkspur since 1995, when I bought my first house in Madrone Canyon with my fiancé, now my husband, Jeffrey Jones. We moved to downtown Larkspur in 2002 because four flights of steps gave too many unsavory opportunities to the twin I wasn’t watching (put that in the category of lessons learned the hard way). We’ve lived on South Green Ct. ever since. I received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and materials science with an additional major in fine art from Duke University. While I was there, I worked for the North Carolina Supercomputing Center. I then studied computer science at U.C. Berkely and worked on a N.A.S.A. astrophysics project until I got my dream job at Industrial Light and Magic in San Rafael. I worked there for ten years until I had to resign due to family demands. I had special needs twin boys and a husband who had been disabled by meningitis. One of my sons is autistic, and he is now a senior at UCLA. The other is studying computer science at COM and working for a local start-up. I chose the water district mainly because I have the technical training to add useful input into resource planning and because of the stubborn lack of diversity that has not improved much over the thirty years since I was in school. I feel driven to understand and solve problems. I think recycled water is the future. The only solution that gives us a reliable source of clean water and takes the pressure off of the environment. We need to start building this infrastructure so we are no longer beholding to our area’s inherent feast or famine weather cycles. The California government is handing out money right now to do this! Marin needs to take advantage of these sweet sweet incentives and step into the future. We start doing it now, we can do it over a longer time horizon so it’s not painful to the ratepayers. Marin is full of the smartest people; we should have the smartest solutions.