Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 39

Having gathered 1341 registered voter signatures to gain ballot access, I'm running to a certain win for the 39th California Assembly seat in 2012, An architect by education and profession, my resonance with our constituency, evidenced by an astonishing tripling the vote in 2010 to 22% from the 8.1% showing in 2008 - both runs for the 39th Assembly seat, comes from taking no corporate donations, pushing for resurgence in area jobs from lowered impact development, renewable technologies and our expanding grassroots voting constituency.

Social Justice and Community Activism:

• Participated and prevailed in the forum amongst the four other candidates for this 2012 election (a corporate-funded candidate was a non-show) at a forum held at Los Angeles Mission College April 14, 2012 - entitled: `Our Community, Our Decision!' Los Angeles Universal Preschool, one of the hosts, focused the moderator questions on education.
• Participating with David Cobb's National group, Move to Amend to abolish corporate personhood as a local organizer and presenter in the East San Fernando Valley.
• My testimony before the City Redistricting Commission, joined by 50 local residents, helped win the communities of the upper and lower Sunland-Tujunga watershed expressed desire, along with my arguments in favor of keeping the lower watershed (Hidden Hills, Lake View Terrace, Foothill Trails District) in the same district as the upper watershed, mountain pass communities (Sunland-Tujunga). The Commission agreed with us and redrew the city council lines per the communities' request.
• Participant, April 2011, with over 1000 California State University at Northridge students in a walkout on March 2 demanding full education funding making real the Dream for all California students.
• Organizer for the winning effort to defeat payola-inspired Los Angeles Measure B - Solar
• Candidate of the Green Party for the 39th California State Assembly Seat in 2008.
• Candidate for Pacifica's foundation radio station KPFK Listener-Sponsor Board in 2007.
• Participant, May 2006 Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Immigration Rallies.
• 2008 Green Party of the United States National Committee and Presidential Nominating Convention Delegate for Cynthia McKinney
• Elected Member, Green Party Los Angeles County Council; 20th Senate District 2006-2008 (Northeast San Fernando Valley)
• Participant in rallies and demonstrations for the impeachment of the Bush regime.
• Participant in San Fernando Valley-based vigil demonstrations against the US war in Iraq.
• Organizer of Organic Consumers Association (OCA) November 13-19 "Breaking the Chains" Campaign against Panorama City Wal-Mart as part of national mobilization to educate consumers about the detrimental effects of large chain stores and promote local, independent alternatives in 2005.
• Co-organizer, Media event to increase public awareness of the detrimental community impact of long-vacant, blighted, building code-compromised 13 story Panorama Towers.
• "Conflict Resolution Training-Mending Human Relations" sponsored by L.A. City Human Relations Commission, National Conference for Community and Justice Program Graduate, 2003.
• Co-author and presenter, award-winning Panorama City Urban Design Assistance Team Study for developing of a sustainable historic commercial area in cooperation with the Los Angeles City Council and Planning Department.
• Coro Southern California Neighborhood Leadership Development Program Graduate, 2003
• Served as an initiator of the Panorama City and Valley Glen Neighborhood Council formations.
• Active member in the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council.
• Testified to deny Los Angeles City planning approval to telecom providers requests to install tranceivers (under U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TA96) deregulation) in commercial areas exposing occupants to electromagnetic radiation (EMF).
• Candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for the 24th US Congressional Seat in 1992.
• Organizer of San Fernando Valley Coalition for Peace and Justice weekly vigil demonstrations on Ventura Boulevard against the US-led Iraq invasion in 1991.
• Organizer of 'Censorship in Corporate Media' on-site demonstrations against local media outlets of corporate-owned ABC, CBS, and NBC initiated during the media spin build-up to Gulf War I in 1991.
• Candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for the 43rd California Assembly Seat in 1990.

• Presenting panelist of the Global Warming Conference presented by the Climate Justice Coalition of Southern California, a production of Grassroots KPFK on the panel: "Going Beyond Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Energy"
• Received, read and acknowledged by Governor Schwarzenegger, this article draws together the economic and ecological collapses' connectedness to urge a steady state economy and tax policy based on relocalization and bio-regional determinism to retire endemic deficit spending and adapt to, mitigate, and restore ecological services from climate change by reducing emissions 70% by 2015 for a less than 2 °C rise from 2000 levels to avoid escalating, horrific effects of deepening social, economic and ecological collapse.
• Panelist/speaker on climate change and water at USC's town hall forum, sponsored by Focus the Nation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young people to help accelerate the transition to a cleaner energy economy, co-sponsored with the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine and the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.
• Contributor and Author of three-part Installment Newspaper Article: "Life as we know it will become extinct" promoting revitalization of the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed published in the July, September and October 2008 editions of North Valley Reporter based in the North East San Fernando Valley.
• Workshop participant/presenter of Los Angeles Citywide General Plan Framework for the Van Nuys-North Sherman Oaks District.
• Featured in California Centers Magazine as an advocate for compact shopping and business environs along the 16-mile Ventura Boulevard Corridor.
• Workshop participant of Paolo Soleri's energy-efficient, sustainable city (arcology) prototype in Arizona.
• Co-presenter on "Artist-Owned Live/Work Space as Catalyst for Central Business District Recovery."
• Featured speaker representing the advocacy group 'Fans of the Sepulveda Basin' at US Army Corps of Engineers Hearings on saving the Sepulveda Dam Basin Wilderness Area in 1992.
• Featured speaker at Amgen Headquarter on holding Big Tobacco financially accountable for runaway health care costs associated with smoking in 1992.
• Featured speaker at Los Angeles Valley College's Earth Day Event in 1991.

• Responsible for project budget determination, analysis and adherence. All projects have been profitable and delivered on-time.
• Master of Architecture, Texas A&M University with an Outpatient Healthcare Facility thesis.
• Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design, University of Washington.
• Pioneered a mix of services which defined Diagnostic and Treatment Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Medical Centers with MRI Facilities as a new building type. Employed innovative day-lighting techniques integral to the building design. Jack's work has included religious campus planning and revitalization of existing commercial centers to foster pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented, mixed use sustainable urban environments
• Testified as expert witness in forensic consultations.
• Taught at Woodbury University, contributes to professional journal articles and has been listed in the Who's Who Registry.
• Featured panelist on "Healthcare Interiors that Work" at the Pacific Design Center's Healthcare Forum in Los Angeles in 1987.
• Exhibitor of the Aspen Medical Center at Association of Western Hospitals Convention in Anaheim California in 1986.
• Consultant to Veterans Administration, developed 250,000 square foot Sepulveda California VA Outpatient Diagnostic and Surgery Center concepts into preliminary and design development physical modeling presentations. Defined and input comprehensive parameters into a successful run of a Texas A & M University computer energy audit in 1980.
• Evaluated a major computer complex (from a building envelope perspective) in a premiere application of the State of California 1st Generation Energy Standards in 1978.
• Organizer, Low-cost Jitney Service for the San Fernando Valley in 1990.