Since 2004. I took 1 year off and came back, and I’ve been here ever since.

I am a Senior Clients' Rights Advocate. My office provides free legal advocacy for consumers of the Regional Center of the East Bay. I help consumers with a variety of problems from special education, regional center services, to public benefit programs. People call with a variety of legal problems and if it's something that we can help with, we do. If it's something that's outside the scope of what we do, family, law or non-disability related law, for example, we would give them a referral list to other attorneys or agencies.

The new Star Wars show Ahsoka. I’m a Star Wars fan, I like it. I’m a general movie fan, so I catch different movies that come out. I like horror, sci fi, and fantasy. I subscribe to the AMC Stubs A-list so I can see three movies a week. I made a point to see Oppenheimer in 70-millimeter IMAX. I take things like that into account, so it’s not just going to the movies, but I care about the format of the movie, the theatre, how comfortable the seats are, is it IMAX versus Dolby Atmos. Things like that I care about and notice.

I like the flexibility—the ability to have a good work life balance.

Things I did wrong, the mistakes I made I learned from today because I’ve made those mistakes. If I didn’t make those mistakes who knows where I’d be.

Things I did wrong, the mistakes I made I learned from today because I’ve made those mistakes. If I didn’t make those mistakes who knows where I’d be.

Passing the bar exam. I also got a scholarship for college that definitely had an impact. That’s definitely one of those things where, where would I be but for that.

Always try to do the right thing. Part of why I do what I do is to try to make the world a better place, you can choose to do good or choose to do bad. A lot of people choose to do bad, and I’ve always tried to do good. I have no idea where that comes from, that’s just me, who I am. It goes back to if you saw 10-year-old me, I knew I was going to be a lawyer. That springs from seeing the world from a child’s perspective and seeing the unfairness of the world particularly as it relates to how children were treated. Which is why when I was in elementary school, I said I'm going go to law school and be a lawyer and come back and represent children and fix these kinds of things. Children have no one to speak on their behalf.

I’m pretty much a couch potato. I go to conventions for different shows. I have a pretty good autograph collection from movies and shows I enjoy and I have like some full size theatrical movie posters. Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars was one of the nicest people you’d ever meet.