What issues are most important to you?

Keeping women's rights, the environment and health care.

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

I try to get involved politically

What organizations do you love or work with?

NRDC, DNC, Planned Parenthood

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?

Maya Angelou and her poems are very empowering to women of all ages and race.

Career: what do you do or want to do?

Registered Nurse

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!

I have my knowledge base as an RN and my charisma, which affords me the opportunity to get along very well with nearly everyone. I am an avid researcher; constantly reading and learning about many things in the world that affect women, the environment and humanity as a whole.

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!

It's up to each of us to help make things right in this world.

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?

I've had many. Most recently was when John McCain said he would overturn Roe vs. Wade if he was elected president of the United States! My friends God daughter was raped and became pregnant. Luckily she had an abortion and I couldn't imagine otherwise!