How I Became an Activist

I wasn't always an activist, for years I had my son to raise, it was not an easy matter, how it came about. Over the years, I had moved to where I had to work, and took my son with me, and it became harder and harder to survive, as time went on. I purged on, and started writing articles about the environment, and sending them out, and no feedback. I became involved through some fluke thing, working at the Mendocino Environmental Center, when I left my ex, due to marital difficulties.

I then was still busy, trying to find a place for my son and myself, and I moved from the west coast to the east coast, and settled in Baltimore, Md., where then I started having problems with my son being a juvenile. However, he grew up, and is OK, but the scars were left with me, and I still had dreams of my own, which I pursued and started a non-profit organization, helping the homeless, and the environment. And I started the newsletter at the same time, I done this.

I believed in helping the homeless, because we had been homeless, on the east coast and west coast, and it wasn't a pretty picture, what I had to go through, and living with the scarcity of things, made me very thoughtful. The group I had started the Environmental Crisis Center, is still going on, and feeding the homeless, and taking over abandon buildings and giving them to the poor in the city of Baltimore, but there is still more that has to be done, for the poor.

This has been no easy task, and today, many of the people who helped us are still around. What is amazing to me is how far I have advanced over the years, from being a waitress, to now being a woman executive director, and I had always been interested in writing, and kept at it over the years, and stayed interested in the way the planet was going. I write this because, I see other woman struggling out there, and raising children, and wondering about their future, what is going to happen. Hang in there, and try to stay positive, and believe in your dreams.