Peace Voyager
11-03-2008, 01:47 PM
Colleen Fernald for Sebastopol City Council
www.campaignforpeace.org (https://www.campaignforpeace.org)
[email protected]
707.829.2243
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For all you last minute & poll voters, here's my bio:
As the daughter of an Air Force Lt. Col., Colleen Fernald has lived in South Carolina & Hawaii and a few spots in between. In 1982 she landed in Cotati to take a live/work position at the renowned Prairie Sun Recording Studios. Finding that Sonoma County has so much to offer, Colleen has made it her home and had 3 children along the way ranging in age from 22 to 12.
Her career has been focused on sales, marketing, and advertising. In 2004 Colleen received her Green Building certification from NARI which she utilizes as a Consultant in sustainable property development. Her primary client is a local business, the Natural Home Design Center.
Colleen is the Founder/Coordinator of the Sebastopol Sustainability Conference & Festival, which took place in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, she partnered with the Producers of the Health & Harmony Festival to evolve this event into the North Bay EcoFest. In addition to those events, Colleen has applied her production skills to: The Creativity Cafe, Children’s Interactive Expo, the New Living Expo and the Sonoma County Watershed Day.
Non-profit work includes: 4 years on the Board of Directors for the Russian River Watershed Council; former Boardmember for the Graton Community Projects, and Project Manager for pollution prevention projects; member of the Sonoma County Water Coalition, the West County Watershed Network, and RRWC representative for the the Salmon Coalition. Colleen was selected to serve on the Climate Protection Campaign’s Community Climate Action Plan, and has previously done research for the CPC.
When Colleen was a member of the Graton Community Projects and also working for the Graton CSD, she initiated a grant request for Prop. 50 funds which resulted in receiving $650,000 for the GCSD. She was involved in the District's groundwater management plan, and has been a citizen lobbyist for water quantity and quality issues on the local, State and Federal level.
On the political front, Colleen wanted to raise the bar with regard to sustainability for Sonoma County as a whole and entered this year's Board of Supervisors race in the 1st District. After meeting with another candidate, Will Pier, she dropped out and helped launch his campaign which has enabled him to be in the runoff this November.
Prior to that she was the Team Leader in the 6th Congressional District for the Dennis Kucinich '08 presidential campaign.
In the 2006 Democratic Primary, Ms. Fernald ran for US Senate as a means to end pre-emptive military invasions. Her campaign ran only 3 months, with a budget of less than $5000, and she received just under 200,000 votes. Shortly after winning her seat, challenger Diane Feinstein did introduce legislation to sunset PL 107-243, which was the 2002 authorization to use for in Iraq. That bill died in the Foreign Relations committee which Feinstein served on at the time.
Colleen Fernald is a member of the Progressive Democrats of America, the Progressive Caucus and Environmental Caucus of the California Democratic Party; though she prefers the inclusive term omni-partisan, and seeks good ideas from all political parties and respects the choice of those who decline to join a party.
For the last 6 six years Colleen has been attending the Sebastopol City Council meetings. Now she wishes to add her skills and innovative ideas more directly to our community's unique bounty of issues, challenges, and possibilities and help build bridges for enhanced livability in Sebastopol
www.campaignforpeace.org (https://www.campaignforpeace.org)
[email protected]
707.829.2243
:beatingheart:
For all you last minute & poll voters, here's my bio:
As the daughter of an Air Force Lt. Col., Colleen Fernald has lived in South Carolina & Hawaii and a few spots in between. In 1982 she landed in Cotati to take a live/work position at the renowned Prairie Sun Recording Studios. Finding that Sonoma County has so much to offer, Colleen has made it her home and had 3 children along the way ranging in age from 22 to 12.
Her career has been focused on sales, marketing, and advertising. In 2004 Colleen received her Green Building certification from NARI which she utilizes as a Consultant in sustainable property development. Her primary client is a local business, the Natural Home Design Center.
Colleen is the Founder/Coordinator of the Sebastopol Sustainability Conference & Festival, which took place in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, she partnered with the Producers of the Health & Harmony Festival to evolve this event into the North Bay EcoFest. In addition to those events, Colleen has applied her production skills to: The Creativity Cafe, Children’s Interactive Expo, the New Living Expo and the Sonoma County Watershed Day.
Non-profit work includes: 4 years on the Board of Directors for the Russian River Watershed Council; former Boardmember for the Graton Community Projects, and Project Manager for pollution prevention projects; member of the Sonoma County Water Coalition, the West County Watershed Network, and RRWC representative for the the Salmon Coalition. Colleen was selected to serve on the Climate Protection Campaign’s Community Climate Action Plan, and has previously done research for the CPC.
When Colleen was a member of the Graton Community Projects and also working for the Graton CSD, she initiated a grant request for Prop. 50 funds which resulted in receiving $650,000 for the GCSD. She was involved in the District's groundwater management plan, and has been a citizen lobbyist for water quantity and quality issues on the local, State and Federal level.
On the political front, Colleen wanted to raise the bar with regard to sustainability for Sonoma County as a whole and entered this year's Board of Supervisors race in the 1st District. After meeting with another candidate, Will Pier, she dropped out and helped launch his campaign which has enabled him to be in the runoff this November.
Prior to that she was the Team Leader in the 6th Congressional District for the Dennis Kucinich '08 presidential campaign.
In the 2006 Democratic Primary, Ms. Fernald ran for US Senate as a means to end pre-emptive military invasions. Her campaign ran only 3 months, with a budget of less than $5000, and she received just under 200,000 votes. Shortly after winning her seat, challenger Diane Feinstein did introduce legislation to sunset PL 107-243, which was the 2002 authorization to use for in Iraq. That bill died in the Foreign Relations committee which Feinstein served on at the time.
Colleen Fernald is a member of the Progressive Democrats of America, the Progressive Caucus and Environmental Caucus of the California Democratic Party; though she prefers the inclusive term omni-partisan, and seeks good ideas from all political parties and respects the choice of those who decline to join a party.
For the last 6 six years Colleen has been attending the Sebastopol City Council meetings. Now she wishes to add her skills and innovative ideas more directly to our community's unique bounty of issues, challenges, and possibilities and help build bridges for enhanced livability in Sebastopol