Throughout my life my two passions, art and politics, have fought it out. Following college in 1969, I joined VISTA and spent a year as a tenant organizer in Detroit. Moving to New York, I was active in the feminist and gay movements, typed for a living, painted large paintings and had a one-woman show at the Brooklyn Museum. In 1974 I taught painting at a ceramics college in upstate New York, and then headed to Eugene, Oregon. After a year of rain, making kitchen cabinets and Sunset furniture, I left to find radical politics in San Francisco. A year later I moved to San Diego to join the union movement, working first in a wheelchair factory, then as a parts finisher at General Dynamics. My outlet for my art became drawing political cartoons and designing t-shirts. In 1986 I moved to the Bay Area, where I was a union organizer for SEIU 790 & 1021 for 20 years.