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In the late 1970's I went to nursing school and got a degree in 1981. Then worked as a nurse for several years in Orange County.
In the late 1980's I became involved in environmental issues and worked with the Los Angeles Sierra Club. While at the University of California Los Angeles Extension Program in Film and TV, I wrote several screenplays about these issues. One of these was optioned.
I moved to Santa Barbara County in 1997. I started and ran a private computer school in Solvang from 2001 to 2006. I then taught in a private school and started their first computer lab and school newspaper as well.
Being in a technically oriented field, I also became aware of the large gap between those who know and those who do not. I taught people how to use the internet to help them educate themselves, to become more involved in world affairs.
When I first became a nurse I was involved with direct patient care, dedicated to providing support care to sick individuals, easing their pain, and teaching them to get the best service. I was frustrated with the terrible medical and insurance bureaucracy that has developed in our country. These patients had debilitating major illnesses and were denied the best care available because insurance companies cut costs by giving rewards and incentives for practitioners to limit or deny treatments.
My move to become involved in creating public policy was initialized because insurance companies denied treatments and abused patients' rights.
These specific issues, along with technology and the environment, have now become the focus of a national debate.
The time for change has arrived and I am prepared to participate in it.
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