I am a Bay Area-based artist-activist from Akron, Ohio. My work includes drawing, painting, silk screen, batik, wood and linoleum block printing, and clay. 

I attribute my earliest interest in art to my mother, a self-taught and accomplished artist. Since I was four years old, my mother encouraged my interest in drawing. She prioritized art, provided permanent spaces in which to learn and practice it, took my siblings and I to weekly children's drawing classes, and took our towering stacks of drawings to the Akron Beacon Journal to compete in the weekly art contest of the "Children's Corner." That's how I got my start as an artist.

I moved to LA in 1968 for college and received a BA in Fine Arts from Immaculate Heart College. There, I was introduced to art-activism with anti-war social consciousness, led by Corita Kent's progressive art department. 

When I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, I became a co-founder of Fireworks Graphics Collective, a cultural project of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, an anti-imperialist organization. Fireworks produced over 130 street art posters to educate, agitate, and organize, addressing social justice issues, for example: anti-war and militarization, anti-racism, support for national liberation struggles, women, political prisoners, and LGBTQ communities.

Later, I received a Masters in Social Work at San Francisco State University and worked for years as a medical social worker.

My current artistic focus involves "Bus People" drawings and social justice solidarity work through banner and poster making. Art is a powerful expression of self, and a tool in the collective response to injustice and exploitation. I believe in the power of art to help change this current imperialist system and culture. It has the power to move people, to educate. As artists, we have a responsibility to engage in dialogue through our art.