By focusing on quality service within my local community, I have developed the characteristics necessary to make me a knowledgeable and skillful negotiator, with a critical eye for assisting others with diverse individual and personal needs.

After being diagnosed with end stage renal disease at the age of 40, I began to focus my attention on well being, right livelihood and issues affecting quality of life. Determined to live each day to its fullest, I navigated a frustrating and challenging institutionalized health care and insurance system successfully and received a kidney transplant with the aid of a life long friend as my living donor. It would have been easy to give up or allow others of preventing me from achieving my goal, but in retrospect, I learned a great deal, and walked away a changed person in the process.

As an educator who taught in overseas and in California public schools, as well as co-founder of several environmental education programs, it has always been my goal to create a more informed and sustainable world.

In my professional experience (both in real estate and teaching) I have come to understand that frequently the more serious and critical the nature of an interaction, the more important a sense of lightheartedness and humor can prove be in working with others, allowing them to maintain interest and enthusiasm in a working through a multitude of challenging or difficult situations. (YOU CAN BET THE HOUSE ON IT!)