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The following information was provided by the candidates running for the Access Tucson Board of Directors and is presented as submitted by the applicants. There are five seats available for the Access Tucson Board of Directors, three seats for a three-year term and two for a two-year term. The candidate elected with the third and fourth highest votes will serve the two-year term.

There will be no voting at the Access Tucson annual meeting.

The results of the Board election will be announced at the Access Tucson annual meeting, at Access Tucson, on Thursday, April 12, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. All members are welcome to attend the annual meeting at which time we will also honor all volunteers. Please come and join us.

Karen Bailey - No Candidate Video
Occupation: Refugee Resettlement Director
Employer: JFCS

Membership in Professional Organizations:
AZRac, member, Jan 07 - current

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
I am interested in getting back involved in the community. I have enjoyed over the years being interviewed with different shows, and how other non-profits are highlighted. This organization is a way to reach the Tucson community. I would like to help this organization move forward in the future.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
I am a fundraiser at heart, and like outreaching the community. I have years of business experience and love working on budgets. I bring years of experience in nonprofit work and Tucson as a community.

David Bayardo - View Candidate Video
Occupation: Musician

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
My focus for serving on the board is mainly to do what’s possible in the current battle for continued public access on Cox and for future funding and support.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
17 years in local television production in areas including studio camera, tape, graphics, editing, technical director, audio, field camera (news photog) long time (10 years+) Access Tucson member.

Sandee Brooke - View Candidate Video
Occupation: Community Volunteer
Employer: Retired

Involvement with Community Organizations:
2006 Alzheimer’s Association, Elected Member; Southern Arizona Regional Leadership Council
2002 — Elected Member Access Tucson, Board of Directors – Vice Chair. April 2002 to —
2004 Selected Member, Mercy Care Plan Member Adversary Board
2002 Member of the Board of Directors, “Voices: Community Stories Past and Present, Inc.” For 2 ½ years
2002 Member, Tucson-Pima Public Library Advisory Committee, planning for 2002 to 2010
2002 Member, “Arizona Republic Newspaper” Public Pulse writers panel for 1 year
2001 Vice-President of “Voices: Community Stories Past and Present, Inc.” for 1 year
2001-02 Chair T-PCHC Sub-committee, Directing Tucson’s 226th Birthday Flag Ceremony
2001 Member, Tucsonans for Sensible Transportation, Working for Light Rail in Tucson
2000 Board of Directors, NEST, Inc.
2000/2002 Consultant, Pima County/Tucson Woman’s Commission. To Robin A Harris, Advocacy Coordinator
2000 Consultant, River Road; Campbell to Alvernon Way/Alvernon Way; Ft. Lowell Road to River Road, Final Location report for Pima County Department of Transportation
2000 Tucson’s 225th Birthday Party planning Committee, Bell Ringing Sub-committee
2000 Consultant, (for the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission) with the Stone Avenue Temple Project, to restore Tucson’s oldest Jewish House of Worship.
2000 Consultant with the Manning House for public relations.
2000 Ended term on Board of Directors and Consumer Co-Chair for Arizona Technology Access Program, (AzTAP).
1999 Founding B of D, First President of “Voices: Community Stories Past and Present, Inc”
1999 Co-Host “Abilities and Disabilities,” Access Tucson, Public Access Television
1998 Appointed to Mayor and Council’s Citizen’s Oversight Committee for the proposed 1998-2003 Basic City Services Action Plan
1998 Co –Host with Jade Stokes, “Your Window on Tucson,” KXCI Community Radio
1998 / 2000 Advisory Board, The Partnership Foundation, Based in San Francisco, CA
1997/2000 President, Public Access Producers Alliance, Access Tucson (PAPA).
1997 Founding Board of Directors, Rural Disabled Assistance Foundation, Inc., (RDAF).
1997/2000 Consumer Co-Chair, Arizona Technology Access Program, (AzTAP).
1997 1998 Accepted to Board of Directors, The Partnership Foundation
1996— Appointed Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission
1994 to 1996 Appointed Tucson Housing Advisory and Appeals Board.
1993 to 1997 Recording Secretary for the Architectural Barriers Action League, Inc.
1989 to 1995 Co-Creator, and Host of the Award winning television program, “Bridges,” winner of the Alliance for Community Media, Community Impact Award, April 24, 1993. 1994 winner of several “Oasis Awards.” “Bridges” is a Public Access Television program by, for and about the Disability Community.
1992 Column “A View from My Bridge” for Wheelin’ Around, an infozine.
1990 Column “From the Skin Out” for Southwest Focus, a publication for and about Physically and Mentally Challenged Arizonans
1976/1977 Trainer for the Work Incentive Program at Windowcraft. An on-the-job training program teaching single parents on Public Assistance, a program about appearance, timeliness, responsibility, work ethic and self esteem.
1973 to 1977 Involved in P.C.C. Student Body Government. Member of the Physically Impaired, Limited Mobility Club. Co-originator of the Great Wheelchair Derby, a chance for able-bodied people to try to get around the West Campus in wheelchairs.
1966 to 1970 Involved with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation (Son Rob’s Special Education.) With the late Shulamith Eisenberg, developed a desperately needed Parents Education and Support Group.

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
My time on the Board of Directors has been a constant struggle to find ways to keep the doors at Access Tucson open. We are up against the biggest threat of TCCC/Access Tucson’s life and I want to be there to continue this battle.

The challenge now is to look to new forms of technologies and methods of using our amazing facility to its best. There are so many developing methods of communicating over cable and using the internet that have yet to be explored! This makes the future of Access Tucson very exciting and to continue to serve you the Members on the Board is something I think I can do well.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
I bring more than 20 years of working with the non-profit and political communities.

I represent the disability communities.

I have some fundraising skills and lots of enthusiasm for the practice and ethics of FREE SPEECH!

Daniel W. Dougherty - View Candidate Video
Occupation: TV Producer, Actor
Employer: Self Employed

Involvement with Community Organizations: Access Broadcasting Up & Coming – Japanimation TV and more, Stuart Thomas

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
I have plenty of time to devote to the work. I understand the place and people.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
I have been able to work with the most difficult crews yet I have held them together. I have always gotten my programs in and met my obligations as a member.

Carl Fiske - View Candidate Video
Occupation: welder, producer
Employer: Concise Facilitators Inc.

Membership in Professional Organizations:
• NAACP, 2007
• Studio Connections, 2004 – 2007
• St Matthews Episcopal Church, 2004 - present
• Institute of Cultural Affairs, 2005

Involvement with Community Organizations:
• St Mathews Church Youth Programs.
• Studio Connections
Youth and Adult Outreach Programs.
• Institute of Cultural Affairs
(a human development organization.)
• Humane Borders
• Border Action
• No More Deaths
• Church Without Walls
• NAACP presidential awards

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
I have a vision of Access Tucson as a communications hub for all community media, with proper equipment and adequate staffing, a place where great shows are produced by a diverse group of producers. If you allow me to be your Access Tucson director I promise I will help breathe new life into Access Tucson that succeeds. I will bring a set of dynamic skills as an Access Tucson board member. I have the ability to empower and coordinate groups of people in ways larger than life. I can greatly help energize groups. If you need a spark to usher in a new era in your group or organization, then I am your person. If you want your group to be a winner, than include me, I will play a major role in helping you be just that, time and time again.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
Computer skills, Social skills, Coordinating skills, Technical skills, Empowerment skills, directing, acting and producing skills, problem solving skills, ground up management skills. The ability to help make you a Winner.

Gerald Harwood, Ph.D. - View Candidate Video
Occupation: Independent documentary producer, writer, environmental consultant.
Employer: Anubis Productions (president)

Membership in Professional Organizations:
NFLCP (Alliance for Community Media), 1984-present
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, 1988-1991
Special Interest Video Association (charter member), 1988-1991
Professional Photographers of America, 1988-2002
International Documentary Association, 1988-1991

Involvement with Community Organizations:
National Science Foundation (CAUSE Program) – Grant Application Panelist and Panel Leader – 1979 and 1980
Pima County Victim Witness Program – Volunteer Advocate (crisis intervention) – 1980 to 1983
Crime Prevention Coordinating Council – 1981 to 1982
Victim Rights Association (organizing member) – 1982 to 1984
Arizona Center for Experiments in Television – 1984 to 1985
Pima Crime Victim Compensation Program (organizing member) – Board of Directors – 1987 to 1991
AT/TCCC Panelist for NFLCP (Alliance for Community Media) national programming awards – 1988
Tucson Zoological Society – Board of Directors – 1991 – 1997
Tucson Community Cable Corporation – Board of Directors – 1988 to present

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
Public access television is more vital to Americans than ever before. While alternative means of communication innovate and proliferate on the World Wide Web, television remains the most powerful educational and motivational force in our culture. For two decades, public access television has facilitated constitutionally guaranteed free speech for individuals and community organizations while providing diverse programming including art, drama, music, documentaries and in-depth coverage of local public events. Concentration of commercial media ownership and distribution among a few giant conglomerates is limiting the variety and depth of music, discussion, entertainment and news coverage that Americans see and hear, as well as greatly diminishing local community coverage. Detailed coverage of local events and debate of political and controversial issues for large audiences is increasingly limited to those who can afford to produce and purchase air time for expensive advertising; and even then, media owners sometimes refuse to broadcast or publish ideas with which they disagree. For these reasons, public access television, community radio and public broadcasting are vital to the protection of the social and political balance of power upon which survival of America’s constitutional democracy depends.

Access Tucson has been consistently rated as one of the nation’s best public access television centers. Access Tucson annually provides media services and programming worth several million dollars to our community and its citizens for a fraction of the cost. Providing these services is far more complex than simply furnishing quality equipment, producer training, and programming to our citizens. In the mid-1990s, Access Tucson survived a stalled cable license renewal process between the city and the cable service provider, forced layoffs of half of our staff and nearly closed our doors. The December 1997 cable license agreement and subsequent City Council action seemed to assure our funding for the next decade, sufficient to expand public services and update aging equipment. However, in 2001, the Council changed the method of our funding, reducing its amount and stability, requiring annual Council approval. Resulting funding cuts necessitated reductions of our public services. In 2007, cable license renewal negotiations between the City of Tucson and its cable provider have been especially difficult and remain unresolved, particularly over the number of channels available to the city for education, government and public access use. There are additional ongoing threats to the survival of public access television at the state and federal levels of government. Public access television should not be a politically partisan issue, as it can benefit citizens of all political persuasions. This continuing history demonstrates the importance of Access Tucson having a vigilant and pro-active board of directors and staff to effectively connect and network in the greater Tucson economic, political and business communities.
As a policy making board of directors facing decisions affecting Access Tucson’s operations, it is essential that our deliberations always consider the increasingly complex “larger picture” that includes economics, technological developments, community demographics and politics. Beyond this, we must also keep abreast of economic, political and business activities at the state and national levels, where corporate and governmental decisions can and do affect cable television regulation,
economics and viewer population.

We continue to face new challenges such as expansion of our services to include more individuals and organizations in times of rapid growth in population and demographic diversity, and integration of new technologies and media. The evolving model of our funding makes it imperative for us to expand our revenue sources. I also believe that it is time for us to expand our services beyond city borders into a “greater Tucson” geographic area that includes portions of Pima County and other newly incorporated areas.

Predicting technological, social and political change, even a year in advance, is difficult. Technology driven changes in television, telephones and computers are impacting society, economics and politics in exciting new ways, Access Tucson’s board and staff must be proactive in avoiding obsolescence of public access television. The market share of cable as a program transmission medium can change, affecting public access viewership, which has been tied to cable technology. Our board, staff and member-producers will be called upon to be innovative and flexible to keep our public access mission relevant and effective in this evolving environment.

During my service on the AT Board, my votes on issues have been based upon consideration of the following elements: the health and survival of Access Tucson and Public Access; the continued growth of programming diversity and quality; the interests of public access and independent producers; and the benefits provided by our services and programming to our citizens. Restoration of a viable and endowed grants program for public access production continues to be one of my priorities. Given the uncertainties of the cable license renewal process, I believe that it is imperative for us to expand our geographical viewer, market and membership bases and to continue building cooperative relationships with other agencies and organizations. I also believe we must help the public understand that the small fee the cable company adds to cable bills for PEG access is not a tax charged by the city, but a rental fee charged to cable companies for their use of public property for conducting their business.

Dealing with many complex issues, the Board benefits greatly from the diverse skills and experience of its members. AT members should be aware that the Board could not work effectively without the excellent support and dedication of AT’s talented professional staff. I believe that public access television can continue to: enrich our citizen’s lives by enhancing our understanding of cultural diversity; improve public education and health; and be a positive force toward understanding and alleviating underlying causes of many social problems. In the future, I would like to see more of our citizens use public access as a forum for discussion of our community’s social and political issues, particularly our youth whose generation faces problems of unprecedented magnitude in our cultural and planetary experience.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
As an independent producer/writer/distributor of arts, third world travel, historical and natural history video and television documentaries, I feel that I bring a combination of production, business and inter-cultural experience to the board. My past board experience (as chair, vice chair, secretary and service on many committees) also permits me to bring historical continuity and perspective to the board in its work. Public service experience in crisis intervention and counseling of crime victims has given me intimate “behind the scenes” contact with diverse elements of Tucson’s culture and insight into our community ‘s social issues and needs. Service on other councils and boards has given me community networking experience. Teaching and research experience on the faculties of the University of Arizona and Pima College provide me with knowledge of the learning process and with a bridge of understanding between our elected and appointed board members. My production experience, public access production training and past Access Tucson board experience have given me understanding of and insight into many production and logistical problems that may be encountered by our member producers and have helped me in my participation in the board’s decision making process. Experience with Federal grant writing and judging has been valuable in my work with Access Tucson’s grant programs and committees.

Martha McGrath - View Candidate Video
Occupation: Producer
Employer: The Bunny Show, Puro Sabor

Involvement with Community Organizations:
Comadres, 2005 through present.
Barrio Hollywood Neighborhood Association, Secretary, 2001 through present.
Fiesta Grande Street Fair, 2002 through present.
Lawrence Intermediate School, Site Committee Chairperson, 2004-2006.
Voices, Inc., 2004, 2005.
TPAC Public Art Committee, 2005 – present.
Barrio Hollywood Historical Mural Project, Curator, 2002 through present.
Hermanos Unidos Encontra de la Pared, Cofounder, Douglas, 1994, 1995.
MEC Crystal Apple Award, Wild Oats, 2006
LULAC National Presidential Citation, 2005
TUSD Certificate of Honor, 2004
University of Arizona, Outstanding Student, Political Science Department, 1998.
State of Arizona, Commendation, for design and implementation program to track health variables in TB study in Douglas
State Prison, 1988.

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
Access Tucson is facing many challenges and needs a board of directors with
CREATIVE VISION
and
THE WILL TO FIGHT TO PRESERVE ACCESS TUCSON’S INTERESTS.
I possess skills that include creative marketing, legal training (JD), producing and outreach to community organizations give me special insight into the challenges that face Access Tucson. Additionally, my enthusiastic support of, and belief in, the principles of Access Tucson and Community Media provide me with a wonderful vision of what Access Tucson can be.

As a board member I will actively work to:
• Resolve challenges facing Access Tucson
• Increase Access Tucson’s Recourses
• Fight to protect Access Tucson’s Interests.
As a board member my first priorities will include:
• An Assessment of recent legislation (Cox) and report on coming cuts
• Creation of 2007 business plan.
• Development of a consistent advertising/PR campaign to
enhance Access Tucson’s image in the public
• Fundraising for adequate Access Tucson equipment, staffing & programs.
• Improving communication and the exchange of ideas between board, staff and producers.
• Improving outreach in the community

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
I feel that my skills in creative marketing, my legal training, my involvement with many community organizations, and my enthusiastic support of and belief in the principles of Access Tucson and Community Media will give me special insight as a board member and will help solve some of these challenges.

My experience as an Access Tucson TV Producer, (2005, 2006), gives me first hand knowledge of the limited resources, technical problems and programming challenges that staff and producers deal with every day, and as a board member I will actively seek to raise funds to provide Access Tucson with the resources it needs.
My vast marketing skills can help enhance Access Tucson’s image in the community. For five years, as the City Marketing Manager at Wild Oats Markets, I created and implemented yearly citywide marketing plans. This included creation of all press releases, copy for ads, photography for ads, for both print and radio media. My marketing expertise includes;
• External Communications including newsletters, brochures, calendars, press releases.
• Marketing Plans aimed at developing new markets through outreach to community groups.
• Photography, copy, placement of both print and radio ads.
• Website Content & updates.
• Fundraising, Event Planning & Implementation.
• TV, Video Production & Promotions.
• Outreach to Community Organizations in Tucson, with extensive connections in the Spanish-speaking markets.

Francine Shacter - View Candidate Video
Occupation: Retired
Employer: U.S. Government 1963-1995

Membership in Professional Organizations:
Democratic Party, Political Activist, 1949 to present
ACLU Board member, Just elected to 3-year term

Involvement with Community Organizations:
Elected first Vice chair of Legislative District 26
Elected to a three-year term on the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union (Tucson Branch)

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
I believe my life experiences and interest in a media that is unfettered by corporate interests will be better able to report all sides of issues which benefits our democracy. I have attached a copy of my CV so you will have more information about who I am.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
Biography
I am a lifelong, card-carrying progressive Democrat. When Alf Landon was running against Franklin Roosevelt, I remember
walking home from school and telling my friend it was very important to re-elect Roosevelt.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and vividly remember the poverty of the depression years. Oranges were a penny a dozen – and no one had a penny to buy a dozen. My mother made soup out of the beet greens the grocer tore off and threw away. I graduated from Hollywood High School and went on to UCLA, got married and went to live in San Francisco where I had four children. In 1954, we moved to Maryland where I organized my precinct for Adlai Stevenson and worked with
a group of reform-minded Democrats in Montgomery County, Maryland. In an otherwise solidly Republican county we elected Democrats to local office. For some years, I was precinct chairman.

I have had many careers. I operated a custom dress designing business and gave fashion shows to support the Democratic Women of Montgomery County.

In 1961, I found myself a single mom responsible for raising four young children. I gave up designing clothes and went to work for the House Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Power as an assistant clerk. While there, I decided to return to school. As I look back on those years, I have no idea how I managed to work full time, raise the children, and go to the University of Maryland two nights a week and Saturday mornings. Finally, I transferred to the external degree program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and earned my Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975. My areas of study were sociology and economics. My senior thesis was entitled “Federal Support of the Visual Arts in the 1930s: The Social Effects of an Economic Program”.

After almost five years “on the hill,” where I was Assistant Clerk in two subcommittees of the House Committee on Government Operations, I went to work at the Bureau of the Census. In 1970, I was selected to manage the San Francisco office for the Decennial Census. I succeeded in reconciling the differences and gaining the cooperation of the many angry minority groups so that the census was successfully taken and San Francisco was one of the only cities in the country that didn’t demand a recount.

I returned to Census in Washington to be responsible for a program in industrial statistics. In 1972, I conducted the Census of Manufacturers for SIC major groups 35, 36, and 39. I was the first woman responsible for SIC major group 35, which covered all of the capital formation machinery manufactured in the United States.

I left Census to go to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. [During my time at the Commission, I had varied responsibilities.] Initially, I was program manager for the chronic hazards program. I got the carcinogenic flame-retardant, Tris, out of children’s sleepwear and wrote the first carcinogen policy ever adopted by a Federal agency. Later, I worked as special assistant to two different Executive Directors and in the Office of Planning and Evaluation where I was the liaison to the Office of Management and Budget responsible for clearing surveys conducted by the Commission.

In June 1995, I retired to pursue other interests which included breeding and showing dogs and teaching people how to train their dogs. I came to Tucson in July 2004. The first week here, I registered to work at the headquarters several days a week. Then, I became a PC and participated in the training of PC’s.

Glenda Steelsmith - View Candidate Video
Occupation: Co Producer
Employer: The Bunny Show

Membership in Professional Organizations:
American Federation of Police, 1977-present
AKKA Karate USA parent member, 1999-present

Involvement with Community Organizations:
Barrio Hollywood Neighborhood Association – special Events
Santa Cruz River Farmer’s Market, Fiesta Valentino – Organizer
Independent Dancers, Secretary, 2007
The Bunny Show, Board of Directors

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
As a visionary, I see unbelievable potential for Access Tucson to improve programming and services to become a real contender with commercial TV. I would like to bring the technical and content standards up in general programming, focus on increasing Access Tucson’s market share in the Tucson audience and build awareness of the benefits of Access Tucson through performances, networking, and appropriate training of members.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
The skills I bring to the table include: Vision for a better Access Tucson matched with person integrity. Mediation skills to work with diverse groups of people, Organizational skill, Communication skills, written and verbal, Leadership skills, Marketing, PR, Event skills.

Joseph “Lolo” Uriarte - View Candidate Video
Occupation: High School Senior, Director Puro Sabor, The Bunny Show
Employer: Pima County Health Dept

Membership in Professional Organizations:
Pascua Yaqui Tribe – Registered Member, 1988-present

Involvement with Community Organizations:
Barrio Hollywood Neighborhood Association – Member
Fiesta Grande Street Fair – MC
St. Greg’s Baseball Team

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
Access Tucson has provided me with the best opportunities to learn about Live TV shows in my life. In less than two years I have gone from a newbie in the Studio Class to directing several important shows. I want other teenagers to experience the challenges, successes and failures that come with live TV production. For that reason, I want to make sure that Access Tucson survives these hard political times in the clutches of Cox Cable. I do believe that Access can, and will survive and be even better with the right leadership on the Board of Directors. I believe that my youth and ambition will serve Access Tucson in that I will work extremely hard to solve the many challenges that face us.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
I understand the technical aspects of Studio Production and can be a voice for both teens, producers and directors on the Board of Directors. I have always had to work harder than everybody else because of I am a perfectionist. I will put those skills to work for Access Tucson so that it can improve and grow and continue to serve the community.

M.E. “Bunny” Uriarte - View Candidate Video
Occupation: UA Student, Spokesperson Fox TV, Star The Bunny Show
Employer: Fox

Membership in Professional Organizations:
Pascua Yaqui Tribe – Registered Member, 1987-present
UAHA Hispanic Alumni Club, 2002-present
UA Honors College, 2003-present
National Honor Society-Mentor

Involvement with Community Organizations:
UA Spanish Club
Barrio Hollywood Neighborhood Association
Fiesta Grande Street Fair

Why do you wish to serve as a Director of Access Tucson?
I am running for the Access Tucson Board of Directors because I believe in Access Tucson and realize that it is an extremely important community resource. Although Access Tucson seems kind of threatened right now, I believe that with a strong, unified leadership that Access Tucson can go even further in serving the Tucson Community. I feel that I could increase public exposure to Access Tucson, which it desperately needs. I am a team worker, and my diplomatic and social skills are an asset in problem solving and could be used at Access Tucson. As a UA junior I know serving on the Access Tucson Board would be an incredible experience, an experience that would help shape me as a person.

What expertise or special qualifications do you posses which you feel would be important to Access Tucson?
I am an experienced leader and spokesperson with a diverse background. I grew up on the U.S./Mexican Border and speak multiple languages. I am a Native American, a registered member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. I can easily relate to people who are not like me. I have had much experience in motivating others to work for, and reach a common goal. I am a good listener and I take everyone’s opinion into consideration when making a decision. Currently, I am a spokesperson for Fox 11, KMSB, “My Tucson TV,” and I interact with community groups in Tucson on a regular basis with ease. I think I could use these skills to promote Access Tucson to the general public.