Retired university project manager and grant proposal writer. I have served as an independent contractor to several education-related agencies, and continue to do so. I am also currently engaged in several garden-related pursuits, mostly volunteer work. Biggest current project is as a board member (President 9/2014 to present) of the Friends of the University of California, Santa Cruz Arboretum. The Friends provide volunteer and fund-raising services for this world-class arboretum. Within that role, I participated in a six-month long "learning collaborative" on accessibility, hosted by the California Association of Museums. I am also a board member for the California Native Garden Foundation, the Monterey Bay Cactus & Succulent Society (currently president), The Garden Faire, and the Monterey Bay Iris Society (past president). I retired recently as editor of the quarterly Bulletin of the American Iris Society, Region 14 (northern California, Arizona, Hawaii). My related objectives are to promote public education in sustainable gardening.Toward that end, I write a weekly garden column for two newspapers: the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Monterey County Herald, which together serve California's Monterey Bay area. I am archiving my columns on my own website, http://ongardening.com, where they searchable and downloadable. I also write occassional garden-related feature stories for these papers.
Listed skills include Newspapers, Newsletters, Copy Editing, Editing, and 22 others.
