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Elementary students participating in Roosevelt's Walk & Roll to School Day
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NENA
Web site
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Centennial Time Garden,
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Roosevelt Elementary School
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Planting pocket gardens along
San Francisco
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with a 2007 Neighborhood
Sustainability Grant
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Ecologically friendly house I worked
on with
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Voluntary Service International in
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Berne, Switzerland
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Community Mobility
- As a professional, a mom, and a volunteer, I'm
interested in making Olympia's neighborhoods safer and more
attractive for walking and other active forms of transportation. This work includes:
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Preparing a resident-led
sidewalk- and trail-building proposal for the City of Olympia called
Closing the Gaps: Building Places for People on Olympia's
Neighborhood Streets. I've also prepared a
summary of this proposal and a
presentation, which I gave to the Coalition of Neighborhood
Associations in October 2008.
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Writing
the
Walking Routes through Northeast Olympia guide, with support
from a Healthy Steps grant awarded to the Northeast Neighborhood
Association by the Thurston County Department of Health and Human
Services.
Donating significant time
to assist Intercity Transit's Youth Education Specialist and
Marketing & Communication Manager define the scope and goals of a
successful Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety grant from WA Dept. of
Transportation. This grant is based on school walking route research
I performed as a volunteer.
Participating in the Commute
Trip Reduction Strategies for Schools advisory group, sponsored
by WA Dept. of Transportation.
Developing a
school traffic survey for Roosevelt Elementary and sharing the
results with the Olympia School
Board and City staff to start a community conversation about the
need to reduce car traffic to schools by improving and
publicizing school walking routes.
Developing Olympia's first
School Walking Route Survey since 1989, focusing on Roosevelt Elementary
School. I hope this survey can serve as a prototype for
conducting comprehensive school walk route surveys at all
schools in local
school districts.
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Northeast Neighborhood
Association
- As Vice President of the
Northeast Neighborhood Association from 2001 to October
2006 and as a non-titled NENA member ever since, I've
focused on:
 Preparing
successful grant applications for the Thurston County
Department of Health and Human Services that garnered
$20,000 that our neighborhood is using to:
- Spearhead Safe
Routes to School efforts at Roosevelt
Elementary.
- Conduct a
neighborhood-wide Walkable Places assessment.
- Organize an
intersection repair with the
Village Improvement Project.
- Identify and
prioritize where sidewalks should be built to
reach neighborhood schools and parks.
Preparing
successful grant applications that won $16,000
so our neighborhood could:
- Plan public
outreach activities with neighbors to envision
how to make our neighborhood a safe and
attractive place to get active and get
connected.
- Build
a Centennial Time Garden, a preschool garden,
and a native plant garden at Roosevelt
Elementary.
- Build and enhance
other gardens at our neighborhood hub.
Designing
and maintaining the
NENA website
(since December 2005), maintaining the NENA mailing lists, designing the NENA logo, and
producing all publicity materials (pro bono).
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Roosevelt Elementary School
Site Council
- Volunteer from
2002-2007 as a neighborhood and parent representative to
provide input about curricula and enrichment programs, co-organize the Roosevelt Foundation Coat Exchange, spearhead the
Time Garden project,
and envision and carry out the
engraved brick fundraiser,
which raised over $4,000 that was used to pay for
Roosevelt's Centennial mural and community celebration.
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Bicycle and Pedestrian
Advisory Committee, City of Olympia
- Volunteer from 2002 through
2005 to inventory, rank, and prioritize locations where
sidewalks will be built throughout Olympia, as documented in
the
City of Olympia Sidewalk Program.
Also provide input about bicycle facilities throughout the
city and improving walkability in the downtown core.
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Voluntary Service
International
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Voluntary Service
International (VSI)
is the Irish division of
Service Civil International, which was
started in
the aftermath of the First World War on the premise that if
we know, respect, and care for people from other cultures,
we’re less likely to want to go to war against them.
Through VSI I got to:
- Help
Turkish Radio and Television produce a documentary about
secular life in this Islamic nation as the Turks took
their first steps toward being admitted into the
European Union. The documentary was translated into the
primary European languages and shown throughout Europe
in the mid-1990s.
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Help
build an ecologically friendly house in Berne,
Switzerland that incorporated innovative technologies to
minimize its footprint on the delicate Alpine foothill
ecosystem, such as a garden on the roof and a pyramidal
greenhouse where the rainwater was filtered and warmed
for the occupants' use.
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Davis Community Mediation
Service
- Worked as a volunteer mediator
to help community members resolve personal and community
disputes. Developed and produced public service
announcements about these services for local cable TV.
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- Miscellaneous
- Completed training in the
Systematic Development of Informed Consent
through
the Institute for Participatory Management & Planning.
July 2004.
- Completed training as a
disaster responder with the
American Red Cross, Seattle WA. April 1996.
- Met with the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland,
Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith, while a graduate student in the
Peace Studies Program at Trinity College to discuss perspectives on the Irish conflict. August 1993.
- Invited to be an observer
at the United
Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna,
Austria. June 1993.
- Certified as a Teacher of English as a Second
Language in Dublin, Ireland. March 1993.
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