My Volunteer Background:
Founder and original member of a locally popular rock band, 2003 - 2008
Member of my town's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team [NERT], beginning 1998
Founder and channel operator on the Internet Relay Chat [IRC] Efnet channel named Netscape, a virtual place to get help using the world's then-most-poplar Internet Browser 1994-2001.
Channel operator on the IRC Efnet channel mIRC, a virtual place to get help using the most popular online chatting program, 1994 - 2001
Founder and board member of my town's curbside recycling program, 1989
Founding board member of a thriving state-wide homeschooling association, 1993
Programming Director for Monterey chapter of Childbirth Education League, 1990 - 1994
Founder, board member, programming chair and newsletter editor of the Twin Cities Lotus User Group, which provided advise and help to users of popular computer programs 1-2-3 and Symphony, 1983 - 1987
Founding board member of the Executive Forum of a professional career networking organization once known as All the Good Old Girls, and later board member and programming chair of the whole group, renamed Minnesota Womens' Network, 1983 - 1989
Big Sister while in undergraduate college in Michigan, 1973 - 1975.
Math Tutor in High School in Michigan, 1972 - 1973.
Founder of a delegation to represent Portugal in the Model United Nations, hosted by The American School of the International Schools of The Hague [TASOTIS], 1972 - 1973
Corresponding Secretary, Student Council, at a high school in Antwerp, Belgium 1971 - 1972
Secretary, Student Council at a school in The Hague, The Netherlands, 1968 - 1969
