Published Essays

• CITIZEN VOICES September, 2021 UNRULY CATHOLIC FEMINISTS State University of New York Press

• WOMEN’S RIGHTS: REFLECTIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE, 2017 Bloomsbury Publishing

• AMERICAN DREAMERS 2012, SharpStuff Publishing

Interviews, reviews and mentions

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Washington Post, June 12, 2023, Which poems help in hard times? Here’s what readers told us.

• Washington Post , January 7, 2022, Women belong in history books

Opinion Pieces

• DEMOCRACY BY LOTTERY: THE RISE OF CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLIES, April 28, 2026

• LOCAL STUDENTS COLLABORATE ACROSS DISTRICTS AT FIRST FIVE STAR SUMMIT, April 30, 2026

• THE 200th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF ELLEN GARRISON CLARK, November 20, 2023

• FEELING GOOD ABOUT ALTADENA, June 22, 2023

• ON SCHOOL BOARDS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE, May 22, 2023

• PASADENA UNIFIED MADE THE RIGHT DECISION March 4, 2023

• PASADENA UNIFIED OFFERS A GOLDMINE OF KNOWLEDGE, September 5, 2022

• PUBLIC EDUCATION IS A WORTHY INVESTMENT, Aug. 4, 2022

• ROE WAS THE RESULT OF THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT, July 19, 2022

• THIS CAR WAS BUILT BY STUDENTS AT PASADENA UNIFIED, June 17, 2022

• ARMENIAN BELL CEREMONY AT PASADENA’S BLAIR HIGH SCHOOL, June 7, 2022

• COME ON OVER TO SEE THE JOHN MUIR HIGH MUSICAL, May 12, 2022

• PASADENA UNIFIED ART EXHIBIT AT THE PASEO, May 2, 2022

• Letter to the Editor Wapo: Women Belong in History Books

• CAN THE CENTER HOLD ON THE PUSD BOARD?, January 18, 2022

• IT’S TIME FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD TO GET BACK TO FOCUSING ON STUDENTS, November 23, 2021 PasadenaNow

• WILL PUSD BECOME THE PREEMINENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE NATION?, November 15, 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• Cross posted here: https://pv4ps.org/school-boards-are-under-attack-heres-why-they-matter/

• OPINION August 24, 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• GRADUATES TOSS THEIR CAPS INTO THE AIR, June 4, 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• PASADENA UNIFIED SENIORS TO GRADUATE AT ROSE BOWL, June 3 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• PEDALING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, May 26, 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• EDUCATION VOUCHERS HURT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, May 3, 2021 PasadenaNOW

• TWILIGHT AT PASADENA UNIFIED, April 3, 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• LEARN ABOUT PASADENA UNIFIED’S SIX MAGNET SCHOOLS, February 3, 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• SENCH SHORES UP AN ALTADENA NEIGHBORHOOD, January 2021 Pasadena Star News

• HOMELESSNESS: ONE OF PASADENA UNIFIED’S MANY CHALLENGES THIS YEAR, January 2021 ColoradoBoulevard

• THE FOUR WALLS OF LEARNING, January 2021 PasadenaNOW

• HELP OUR SCHOOLS ON GIVING TUESDAY, May 5, 2020 ColoradoBoulevard

• A SUPERHIGHWAY RUNS THROUGH ALTADENA, April 28, 2020 ColoradoBoulevard

• FORMER GOVERNOR KUNIN TALKS BERNIE AND FEMINISM, and 2020 February 19, 2020

• PASADENANS AND ALTADENANS MAKING HOMEMADE BREAD WITH LOVE, March 4, 2020 ColoradoBoulevard

• A BEACON OF HOPE FROM ALTADENA TO THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, March 27, 2020 ColoradoBoulevard

• MOMENTS OF HOPE IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES, March 20, 2020 ColoradoBoulevard

• FROM FIRST LADY TO FIRST SPOUSE, March 14, 2020 ColoradoBoulevard

• LAURA FARBER KEYNOTES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, February 2020

• THE HIDDEN GARDEN IN ALTADENA, January 11, 2020 ColoradoBoulevard

• WHY I VOLUNTEER AT ELIOT ANNUAL FUND IN ALTADENA, November 2019

• INCOME INEQUALITY IS REFLECTED IN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, December 2019

• THAT MAGNIFICENT BUILDING ON LAKE IS A PUBLIC SCHOOL, Altadena Neighbors, Summer 2019

• NINE STATUES OF WOMEN IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL IS NOT ENOUGH San Francisco Chronicle, March 9, 2015

• FEMALE SPECIAL EFFECTS PIONEERS SHARE STORIES FROM STAR WARS, BACK TO THE FUTURE, AND BEYONDThe Mary Sue, May 9, 2014

• IS THE U.S. FUTURE REALLY FEMALE? Fabiana, 2018,