I live in Boyes Hot Springs, just outside of the town of Sonoma. I am an active full time professional Realtor® serving buyers and sellers in Sonoma and Napa counties. I am a Senior Sales Associates at Corcoran Icon Properties.
I am a Bay Area native. I grew up in Berkeley in the ‘60s, where I was immersed in music and the arts and politics, hanging out at People’s Park, and living first-hand through the political and social revolutions that emanated from the Bay Area. I spent amazing childhood summers on my grandparents’ vineyards in the Central Valley, gaining an appreciation for the business and culture of the farming life.
I attended U.C. Berkeley where I studied Anthropology, Archeology and Art history, earning a degree in the history of Art with distinction in general scholarship. My favorite classes were on American Architecture where I learned how homes and how we live in homes has evolved over generations.
I became a REALTOR® in 1999 to combine my love of homes and my passion for helping clients. I once confided “I got into real estate because I thought it would be easy. It turned out to be hard and challenging work but I love it – which makes it feel easy!”
In addition to my day-to-day work as a REALTOR®, I have followed my passion for the profession of real estate into leadership positions at the local and state levels. I have the unusual distinction of service as Association President in two different area Associations: the Oakland Association of REALTORS® in 2009, and (after moving to Sonoma) the North Bay Association of REALTORS® in 2016. I continue to serve on the North Bay Association board, as well as serving as the Sonoma chapter chair. Concurrently I have also served as a regional chair at the California Association of REALTORS®, and continues to serve as a Director at the State level.
In my free time, I am also an accomplished California landscape painter and photographer.
I am a proud member in good standing in the following real estate professional trade associations:
• National Association of REALTORS®
• California Association of REALTORS®
• North Bay Association of REALTORS®
• National Association of Gay and Lesbian Real Estate Professionals
