Candidate for
Council Member; City of Palo Alto

Occupation: Arts Administrator
Age: 48
Education and Qualifications:
New Residentialist Platform (NRP) started when I suggested to a friend that his group of home-owners clustered around the 100 block of Bryant get in touch with a group near 800 Cowper to look for over-lapping interests beyond their respective issues and their mutual frustration at not being heard initially by Council and staff.

I am running more to generate and moderate such a list of concerns / suggestions than to foist one that is pre-written. I see myself as a catalyst for ideas, as a facilitator and communicator, more than a leader per se. Part semi-conductor, part song-catcher, if you will.

I graduated from Gunn High (1982) and Dartmouth College (1986) and have experience as journalist, ad and pr writer, concert promoter and artist manager. I'm a life-long learner and get cues and inspiration from the arts, and from science and data.

Our Council needs a diversity of voices, and methodologies. Vote for Mark Weiss to get the needs of residents better reflected in local self-governance. I will listen to you and stay independent from powerful special interest. I will update the platform at a blog titled "Svayambh-PA: or, New Residentialist Platform (NRP)".