Member and Clerk, Town of Ashford Board of Finance, 2011-present

Chair, Ashford Democratic Town Committee, 2008-present

Candidate, Connecticut State Senate, District 35, 2012

Member, Town of Ashford Planning and Zoning Commission, 2007-2011

Candidate, Connecticut State Senate, District 35, 2010

Candidate, Connecticut State House of Representatives, District 53, 2006

Chair, Ashford Clean Energy Task Force, 2008-present

Member, Open Space Sub-Committee of Ashford Conservation Commission, 2008-present

Founding Member, Conversations for a Green Connecticut, 2006-present

Commissioner, Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, present

Member, Hartford Interval House Board of Directors, 1995-2008

Chair of Board Development Committee, Hartford Interval House, 1996-2007

Board President, Hartford Interval House Board of Directors, 2007-2008, 1996-1999

Volunteer, Peace Corps (Sierra Leone), 1978-1980

Director of Communications and Outreach, Clean Water Action, 2010-present

Former Instructor, Applied Anthropology, University of Kentucky

Former Research Assistant, University of Kentucky

Consultant, Clean Water Action, 2009-2010

Author, 1998

Program Coordinator, Family Violence Victim Advocate Program , CT Coalition Against Domestic Violence , 1990-1992

Program Coordinator, Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Family Violence Victim Advocate Program, 1990-1992

Family Violence Victim Advocate, Hartford Interval House, 1987-1990

Founding Member, Conversations for a Green Connecticut, 2006-present

Member, American Association of University Women

Employee, CT NOW

Member, Friends of Sierra Leone

Member, League of Women Voters

Member, Sierra Club

Member, Society for Applied Anthropolgy

President/Publicity Chair, E.O. Smith Drama Association, 2005-2009

Member, E.O. Smith Drama Association, 2002-2009

Advocate, Family Violence Victim, Hartford Interval House, 1987-1990

Volunteer, Peace Corps, Sierra Leone, 1978-1980

Publications:

Tobacco Culture, University Press of KY 1998