My community involvement runs from athletics to charitable work to activism in preserving and enhancing our natural resources to supporting the arts through performance.
I’ve coached for Bryans Road Soccer Association and Upward Soccer, Umpired for Potomac River Little League and organized as team parent at SMYO when my children were younger.
During their High School years, I participated in fundraising for Athletic Boosters, running the fifty-fifty in the football stands (red white and blue top hat) at Lackey High School as well as serving as President of the Performing Arts Boosters.
Additionally, I served as stroke and turn judge for Lackey and Torpedoes Swimming and referee for Lacky and St Charles Swimming.
Weekly, I volunteer at a Bryans Road Food Pantry and spend three afternoons a week during the school year at the Potomac Branch Library tutoring students in need of academic support.
I was Southern Maryland Organizer for the Sierra Club for the Climate March last year and have been active with the Mattawoman Watershed Society for many years. I presently represent the Society on the Tri-County Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure Advisory Committee, the Choose Clean Water Coalition and the United Way. In the past, I’ve also represented Maryland on the Green Party US EcoAction Committee and I provide testimony to County and State Agency Hearings and lobby our State Legislative Delegation on Sierra Club priority legislation. I’ve worked with what is now 350.org to bring about federal legislation on climate change and appear in Bill Mckibben’s book Fight Global Warming Now. I have also tried to support former Commissioner Hodge’s efforts to bring light rail to Charles County.
I have performed as a singer/songwriter in support of Christ Church Old Durham, Port Tobacco Market Day and have used my appearances at other venues in DC and Southern Maryland to support community activism. I’ve sung bass for Christ Church Port Tobacco Parish and now sing at Old Durham. I love pipe organs.