Since being elected President of the Private Sector, we have grown from almost 4,000 members to over 5,700 members. Despite stagnant Union growth across the U.S., human service workers are continuing to organize to form a union within their workplaces.

Mental health worker and SEIU member/union activist hired by SEIU for special projects including political fundraising (COPE); Director of pilot program, NOC (National Organizing Corps), to recruit and train member-organizers to work on forming unions at human services agencies; elected Local 509 Chapter President of Private Sector Human Services, 4,500 members and growing; Director of Internal Organizing; trainer, FFE (Fight For a Fair Economy)

Director of Operations for international mail order division of Rounder Records; wrote record reviews, as Decibel Dennis, for Record Roundup, All-Music Guide, Atomic Beat; first turned on many readers/customers to the music of Lucinda Williams and other roots-oriented artists