I am single, lived in Northern California more than 40 years. As a student, I studied Theatre Arts and was an actor in university theatre in Ann Arbor, Abuquerque, and San Francisco Bay Area. Later I became a Stage Manager in non-profit Fine Arts. Yet, I had to find work that could pay the bills, so I have been employed in a major banking company over the past decade. I learned about the Department of Peace and Non-Violence in 2005, and have been involved with local efforts to establish the D of P ever since.