I support the platform of the United Faculty for the Common Good, and will work in collaboration and solidarity with others on the slate.

My academic work focused on how the maldistribution of power and wealth undermines health. I have some good board-serving experience. As secretary to the board of the University of Washington’s AAUP advocacy chapter (our chapter’s motto is, “resist austerity”), I take good minutes.

I received the American Public Health Association’s Sidel-Levy award for Peace in 2018. I’m active in APHA’s Peace Caucus, and a leader in the Global Alliance on War, Conflict and Health. I’m co-editing a book on Conflict and Health for a European publisher. I’m the mother of three remarkable adults, and a grandmother of two boys in Seattle public schools and who play a lot of baseball.

I directed a graduate degree program at UW for 9 years, with 26 faculty and 50 students each year, managing a $1.3 million budget. My PhD work analyzed the migration of health professionals from poor countries to rich ones. I taught a class on war and health for 9 years at UW, and I led a team to measure war-related mortality in Iraq in 2011.

I served a term on the Seattle School board, and was a founding member of College Access Now in Seattle, which employed Americorps members to assist low-income, especially immigrant, high school students tackle their college admission applications. 

I am asking for your support for my candidacy and those of my fellow UFCG slate members because we believe a better university is possible and worth fighting for.