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Deborah Lagutaris
Narrative Chronological CV follows • Constituent caseworker intern with State Senator Jack O’Connell, researching policy and activity on the ground, and contacting members of Federal, state and local government to develop answers to constituent questions and get results • MPA coursework in intergovernmental relations. • MPA coursework in human relations • MPA internship with Stay in School Resource Center at SFSU, an organization charged with keeping low-income and teen mothers in college, where I worked with students, updated database, and assisted staff in their various tasks. Attended public policy meetings in the City of San Francisco to communicate meeting contents to staff • Messaging committee chair for the D2K march during the 2000 Los Angeles Democratic National Convention. Took issues that seemed irrelevant to low-income and conservative communities and connected them to people’s daily lives. Increased political awareness and attendance at the march. 35 thousand people joined the march at some point during the 7 days. • Executive committee member for the People’s Convention, which preceded the D2K march by one week. The People’s Convention brought speakers from across the US to educate the public on legislative, regulatory and foreign policy issues. • Executive committee member, and Media and messaging chair for the First Annual People’s March for Economic Justice in Santa Barbara, CA in March of 2001. 600 people marched in this first march and thereby alerted local politicians that the issues of low-income and communities of color needed attention, even in paradise, despite numerous legal and procedural obstacles set in our path by the City of Santa Barbara. The march is now in its ninth year. • Executive assistant to the Dean and Associate Dean of Summer Sessions at UCSB. Summers Sessions operated as a microcosm of the University administration, a separate entity and process from regular academic-year planning. Summer Sessions administered 300 undergraduate courses, three summer graduate programs, and early start programs for 200 talented high school students. Effectively communicated with senior campus administration and academic department heads to develop classroom scheduling as needed by Deans. Generated ideas for and coordinated publicity events for Summer Sessions. Assisted students with course choices and payment. Developed and implemented tuition refund policy and process. Researched student documentation related to tuition refunds. Developed and executed Excel spreadsheets and various databases in both Microsoft Office and Apple Office programs for distribution to senior campus administration and for planning use by the Deans. Areas included analysis of enrollment by class and department, cost/benefit analysis of each course offered, areas of changing trends in order to offer desired courses for the following year, and policy development across the Summer Sessions offerings and procedures. • Member, San Francisco Bay Area National Lawyers Guild State Bar Legislative Committee. Primary author of several legislative resolutions per year since 2003. Members advance ideas about legal or policy problems for the State and Federal government. I research current legislation and policy development to suggest changes to current legislation or author new legislation. Comments and objections are then fielded for attorneys. These resolutions are then presented to the Conference of California Bar Associations at their annual meeting each September to be voted up or down. The success rate for my resolutions is over 80% among this diverse and opinionated group of constituents. • “Quick study” took first economics and governmental relations classes at the age of 16. Began undergraduate academic career at the age of 17 at UCR, with a major in political science. Lifelong learner with an ear to the ground since 1970 for current events and political rhetoric • Continuing history of college coursework in business, law and the social sciences since 1967, culminating in a Juris Doctor at UC Hastings College of the Law in 2004 with a specialty and certificate in Public Interest Law. UC Hastings is a top-tier law school with an excellent reputation for producing fine judges. • Developed curriculum for core course in the Public Interest major at UC Hastings with a committee of students under the supervision of Prof. Ascanio Piomelli • Have led or facilitated over 500 meetings in the private sector and nonprofit sector since 1973. • Skilled practitioner of the Consensus Method, respected meeting facilitator. • Relevant elective coursework at UC Hastings: International Trade Law, Community Organizing, Community Development, Law and Economics (Critical Economic Theory), International Human Rights Law, Labor Law, Administrative Law, Nonprofit Organizations Law, Corporation Law, Environmental Law and Policy, Judicial Process, Constitutional Law. • Relevant coursework in the Law and Society Major, UC Santa Barbara. Critical Political Theory, History of Racism in the United States, Law and Gender, Statistics, Social Science Data Analysis, International Comparative Law, US Political Process, Rhetoric and Critical Thinking, International Political Relations, History Proseminar, Honors Coursework throughout college. • Minor in History, Highest Honors, Political History of the 20th Century. • People say that I am a gifted teacher. Served as volunteer economics tutor to a group of politically progressive community leaders and change agents since 2007. Predicted current economic meltdown with specificity as to cause and effect, explaining to this group and many others since the nature of the underlying mechanisms that have failed us. • Senior thesis at UC Santa Barbara employed 40 pages of condensed political theory to explain the views of the subjects of the thesis, the citizen participants of the D2K March in Los Angeles in August of 2000. I gathered and analyzed ethnographic, interview and survey data to conclude that environmental justice issues were most likely to engage both my subjects and a cross-section of subjects drawn from the NORC national database of citizen attitudes. The NORC statistics have been gathered since the early 1970s. • Organization initiation, development and growth. o Founder: Global Justice Coalition, UCSB, 2000. Founder: Green Party UCSB 2000. Revitalized moribund chapter of National Lawyers Guild at UC Hastings and led for three years, training effective leaders for the next three years and establishing policies for continued leadership growth. Founding member, Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal. Organizing CV • 1966-Organized my sophomore high school class in opposition to mandatory frog dissection. Had to defend my position in front of the entire class under debate conditions and succeeded in getting administration to agree substituting other work for dissection. Served as sophomore and junior class student government executive board member. • 1971-Joined Young Republicans, served on local executive board. • 1973-Joined California State Fire District Ladies Auxiliary. Became club president and subsequently became State Director of Communications. • 1993-Member of executive committee formed by local school district to pass a local school bond. Committee succeeded in its goal, surpassing the 67% voter approval goal in a Republican county. • 1994-Founding member of the Committee of 300, a local organization formed to remove members of the local hospital board. The Committee succeeded in its goal. • 1999-Joined Campus Labor Action Coalition at UC Santa Barbara and soon assumed a leadership role. • 2000-Led campus in effective action against David Horowitz, the right-wing extremist who was touring college campuses in opposition to reparations for slavery. Rather than hold a protest at his speaking event, I organized a professor-led panel at the same time on The Twisted Mythology of the Right Wing. • 2000-Founded and built Green Party at UC Santa Barbara. • 2000-Founded and organized Santa Barbara Social Justice listserv, which has grown to 300 members. • 2000-Messaging and media chair for the first annual People’s March for Economic Justice in the City of Santa Barbara, an initiative of the Campus Labor Action Coalition. The march is now in its ninth year. • 2001-Joined student government AS-UCH at UC Hastings College of the Law as a 1L Class Representative. • 2001-Revitalized moribund student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild at UC Hastings. • 2001- Led efforts at UC Hastings, educating students, faculty, and staff, to oppose the construction of a parking garage by UC Hastings that did not conform to the City of San Francisco Transit Plan and would create hazardous street conditions in an area of the City already notorious for street crime. The original plan was scrapped and the garage was completed in 2009 according to the vision of the affected community. • 2002-Joined Executive Board of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, in formation. Under my leadership, the first issue of the Journal was produced. The following year, the Journal was recognized as an official publication of UC Hastings and the Journal staff was provided offices on campus. Also webweaver. • 2002-Elected to position of Internal Vice President of AS-UCH. Increased visibility and capabilities of student organizations. Also webweaver. • Developed the Hastings-I, the first online news source for Hastings students. Also webweaver. • 2001-2002-President of National Lawyers Guild Student Chapter at UC Hastings. Also webweaver. • 2003-Elected to position of Director of Communications for AS-UCH. Post-Degree • A founder of the “Solidaritily” Network of Social Justice Hastings Alums and Allies • Yahoo Political Chat:: Organized core group of political writers and activists, created Blog • Paltalk Political Chat: Organized new room, International Progressives Unite • Reframers Political Change Agent Group: assistant online chair and economics educator. • 5th Reunion Co-Chair, UC Hastings Alumni Association • Co-founder: Civic Progress, www.civicprogress.org, a website to link people working on similar issues in North America, and link people in communities with one another, with both localization and mass mobilization in mind. (archived) • Proposal: AFISC, Americans for Individual and Social Consciousness, a student/graduate organization that would be activated at the high school, college, professional school, trade school and graduate school level to keep socially progressive people together and focused, rather than isolating them within single issue groups. People would work on their issues of interest among a supportive network of progressive individuals, drawing sustenance and resources from the group. • Board member, webweaver, and internet chair: Coastside Democratic Club, Half Moon Bay • Proposal: National Lawyers Guild Credit Union. Keep money out of hands of commercial bankers and arbitrageurs to use for helping local groups and assisting progressive law students with loans and other education costs. • Webweaver: www.calimpeachmentslate.com, a joint effort by candidates from a range of political parties to vote unresponsive politicians from office. • SF National Lawyers Guild Chapter, State Bar Legislative Committee member. Organized meetings, solicited members, drafted resolutions and legislation • Co-founder: California State Parks Live organization Regular reading: The Economist Information Clearing House The New York Times The Washington Post The Guardian (U.K.) Alternet Truthout Salon Southern Poverty Law Center Benefits listserv at the Benchmark Institute, public benefits law organization National Police Accountability Project listserv, a project of the National Lawyers Guild to fight police brutality and abuse. International Law listserv, National Lawyers Guild Various right-wing publications including Human Events, The Cato Society, The Weekly Standard. One nonfiction political, psychological, economic, or philosophy book per week. Memberships: Green Party US Democratic Party Working Class Academics Board Member, Meiklejohn Institute Board Member, Coastside Democrats IWW American Association of University Women Code Pink |
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