David Skidmore
Professor
Department of Politics and
International Relations
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa 50311
tel.: (515) 271-3843
FAX: (515) 271-3977
e-mail: david.skidmore@drake.edu
David
Skidmore
Professor
Department of Politics and
International Relations
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa 50311
tel.: (515) 271-3843
FAX: (515) 271-3977
e-mail: david.skidmore@drake.edu
Past Employment:
Visiting Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University
Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China, 9/96-6/97
Visiting Associate Professor, Rollins College, 1/3/96-1/31/96
Instructor, University of Notre Dame, 8/88-6/89
Instructor, Hamilton College, 6/86-6/88
Recent Positions:
Director of the Center
for Global Citizenship (2002-present)
Director of the Drake Curriculum
(2000-2004)
Coordinator of the First
Year Seminar Program (1999-2004)
Associate Dean for Curriculum Development, College of Arts
and Sciences (1999-2001)
Acting Chair, Department
of Political Science (1998-99)
Director, International
Relations Program (1997-present)
Chair, Elsworth and Sylvia Woods Fund (1997-2001)
Board of Directors, Iowa
Division of the United Nations Association (1998-1999).
Advisory Board, Iowa Sister
States (2003-present).
Research Interests:
Domestic sources of American foreign policy.
International political economy.
International relations theory.
Transnational social movements.
Teaching Interests:
World
Politics
American
Foreign Policy
International
Political Economy
International
Relations Theory
Revisiting
the Vietnam War
Politics
and Government in Latin America
Grassroots Globalism
Paths to Knowledge
Globalization: Salvation,
Scourge or Myth?
Education:
B.A., Rollins College, 1979; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989.
Travel Experience:
China , Hong Kong , Thailand , Mexico , Jamaica, Germany, Great Britain, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Vietnam, Cambodia.
Affiliations:
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
United Nations Association
Publications:
Books
Paradoxes
of Power: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changing World, edited reader, Paradigm
Publishers, 2007.
Contested
Social Orders and International Politics .
Edited by David Skidmore. Published by Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.
International
Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Weath . Co-authored with Thomas Lairson. Published by Wadsworth ,
first edition, 1992; second edition, 1996; third edition, 2002.
Reversing
Course: Carter s Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and the Failure of Reform
. Published by Vanderbilt University Press,
1996.
The Limits of State Autonomy:
Societal Groups and Foreign Policy Formulation. Co-edited with Valerie
Hudson. Published by Westview Press, 1993.
Journal Articles (Refereed)
"Understanding
the Unilateralist Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy," Foreign Policy Analysis,
2, 2005.
"An
Infusion Approach to Internationalization," Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary
Journal of Study Abroad, Fall, 2005. Co-authored with Jan Marston and Gretchen
Olson.
"Civil Society, Social Capital
and Economic Development." Global
Society, January, 2001.
"Between
Leadership and Retreat: The President, Foreign Policy and Domestic Opinion."
International Studies Notes, June, 1999.
"After Tiananmen: The Struggle
Over U.S. Policy Toward China in the Bush Administration." Co-authored with William Gates. Presidential Studies
Quarterly, Summer, 1997.
"Teaching about the Post-Cold
War World: Four Future Scenarios," International
Studies Notes, Winter, 1994-95.
"Carter and the Failure of Foreign
Policy Reform," Political Science Quarterly, Winter, 1994.
"Foreign Policy Interest Groups and
Presidential Power: Jimmy Carter and the Battle Over Ratification of the Panama Canal
Treaties," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Summer, 1993.
A revised version of this paper also appeared in Herbert Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky
(eds.), Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years , Greenwood
Press, 1993.
Book Chapters
"Fukuyama's Dream, Huntington's
Nightmare and a Grassroots Reverie," in Peter
Herrmann and Arno Tausch (eds.), Dar Al Islam: Europe, the World System and the
Ultimate EU-Enlargement, Hauppage: Nova Scotia Publishers, 2004. A revised and
translated version of this article will appear in Europa (Russian-language
quarterly of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw) under the title
of "Global Visions: Three Possible Futures for Europe and the World," in
February, 2003.
"The Domestic Politics of U.S. Trade Policy," in conference proceedings: "Política Internacional
e Comparada: Perspectivas Recentes no Brasil" ("International Politics
and Comparative Politics: Recent Perspectives in Brazil"), November 11-12, 1999,
University of Brazilia, Brazilia, Brazil. Published in book form, 2001.
"Introduction: Bringing Social Orders
Back In." In Contested Social Orders and International Politics.
"Rethinking Realist Interpretations
of the Cold War: Balance of Power or Competing Social Orders?" In Contested
Social Orders and International Politics.
"Explaining State Responses
to International Change: The Structural Sources of Policy Rigidity and Change,"
in Jerel Rosati, Martin Sampson and Joseph Hagan (eds.), Explaining Foreign Policy
Restructuring, Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1994
"Explaining the Limits of
State Autonomy: Contending Approaches to the Study of State-Society Relations
and Foreign Policy-Making." Co-authored with Valerie Hudson. Introductory
chapter to The Limits of State Autonomy.
"The Politics of National
Security Policy: Interest Groups, Coalitions and the SALT II Debate."
In The Limits of State Autonomy.
Published Simulation Game (Refereed)
"Nations: A Simulation Game
in International Politics." Co-authored with Michael Herzig. PEW Case
Studies in International Affairs Series ,
1995.
Other Academic Publications (Non-Refereed)
"The
Rise of Market Populism in Latin America, Bison Paper 9, Center for Defense
and Security Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada, 2006.
"The
Domestic Politics of U.S. Trade Policy," in conference proceedings: "Politica
Internacional e Comprarada: Perspectivas Recentes no Brasil," November 11-12,
1999, University of Brazilia, Brazil. Published in book form, 2001.
"Who is at the Helm? U.N. Funding
and the Failure of Helms-Biden,"PEW Case Study in International Affairs Series,
2000.
"Group Projects and Teaching
International Relations," International Studies Notes, September,
1993 (commissioned for special issue).
"Import Substitution Industrialization"
and "Hegemonic Decline," entries in the Routledge Encyclopedia of International
Political Economy, edited by R.J.B. Jones, 2001.
Book Reviews
Review
of Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to American National Identity,
in International Studies Review, March, 2006.
Review of K.J. Holsti, Taming the Sovereigns:
Institutional Changes in International Politics, 2004. Forthcoming in International
Studies Review.
Review of Amory Starr, Naming
the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization
, 2000, in The Journal of Political Ecology, July, 2001.
Huntington
s Clash Revisited. Pacifica Review,
January, 1999.Reprinted in Journal of World Systems Research, Fall, 1998.
Review of Robert W. Cox (ed.), The
New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order, 1997, in The
American Political Science Review, Spring, 1998.
.
Featured Review Essay titled "The
Business of International Politics." Reviews
Ronald Cox, Power and Profits, 1994; Gregory Nowell, Mercantile States
and the World Oil Cartel, 1900-1939 , 1994; David Gibbs, The Political Economy
of Third World Intervention , 1991. In Mershon International Studies
Review, October, 1995.
Review of Walter Isaacson, Kissinger:
A Biography, 1992; in The Review of Politics, Winter, 1994.
Review of Josephy Lepgold, The Declining
Hegemon: The United States and European Defense, 1960-1990, 1990, in The American
Political Science Review, Winter, 1992.
Review of Gaddis Smith, Morality, Reason
and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years, 1986; in The Review of
Politics, Winter, 1989.
Review of Aaron Friedberg, The Weary
Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905; in The Review
of Politics, Fall, 1989.
Work in Progress
Fourth edition of International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and
Wealth.
Opinion Page Articles
"Resisting the New Isolationism,"
Shaw Magazine, October, 1998.
"China: Prickly but no Threat,"
Des Moines Register, November 4, 1997.Reprinted
in Shaw Magazine, December, 1998.
"Prayers Launched for the People
of Zinacantan," Des Moines Register,
August 14, 1996. Reprinted in Shaw Magazine,
January, 1999.
"The Passing of the American
Century," Rollins Sandspur, December 9, 1992.
"Professor Explores Three
Vietnam Myths," Drake Times Delphic, March 13, 1990.
Other Non-Academic Publications
Various articles have appeared in the following publications:
Foreign Policy Analysis Notes, Estos Tiempos, In Writing, Stanford Daily, East Palo
Alto Progress, Co-op News, New Directions Newsletter, Rollins Sandspur.
Web Development
Offered Web-based courses, Political Science 075 World Politics
and Pols 123 Revisiting the Vietnam War.
Created website on active and collaborative learning. URL:
http://www.drake.edu/artsci/PolSci/activelearning/a&clearning.html
Created website to accompany International Political Economy
textbook. URL: http://www.mac.drake.edu/pols075/ipe/IntroIPEpage.html
Created website for Political Science and International
Relations programs, Drake University. URL: http://www.drake.edu/artsci/ir/ir_description.html . URL: http://www.drake.edu/PolSci/PolSci_Home_Page.html
Created website for Drake Curriculum program and FYS programs:
URL: http://www/drake.edu/dc
Created website for Center for Global
Education: URL: http://www.drake.edu/cgc
Conference Presentations
International Studies Association (ISA),
2007. Discussant: "Ideas and U.S. Grand Strategy."
"Next Steps in the U.S. Relationship with International Courts and Tribunals,"
George Washington University Law School, May 11 and 12, 2006.
University of Manitoba Political Science Student's Conference: "The State of
the State: New Challenges in the 21st Century," February 1-3, 2006. Presentation:
"The Rise of Market Populism in Latin America."
Conference on U.S.-Korean Relations: What a Difference Ten Years Makes." Discussant:
"South Korean Politics and Foreign Policy," Iowa State University, September
28, 2005.
Socity for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 23-25, 2005. Discussant:
"From Human Rights and Detente to the Carter Doctrine of Containment: President
Carter's Foreign Policy Shift.
ACE International Collaborative Annual Meeting. Panelist: "Aligning Internationalization
with Institutional Processes and Goals," February 4. 2005.
Beloit College conference on New Directions in International
Education. October 29-30, 2004. Presentation: "Internationalization
in the Heartland: New Directions at Drake University,"
2004. Co-authored with Jan Marston and Gretchen Olson.
International Studies Association, 2004. Paper: "The Hegemon's Prerogative: Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy."
University of Connecticut International Law Review Symposium
on "The New Hegemony?" Presentation: "The Hegemon's Prerogative Unilateralism
and U.S. Foreign Policy," October 17, 2003.
Iowa Conference of Political Scientists, 2002. Chair and Presenter: "Bush Foreign
Policy: Retreat from Multilateralism?" Drake University, November 6, 2002.
ANAC/AAC&U Conference on Faculty Roles and Student Learning.
November 7-9, 2002. Panel Presentation: "Curriculum Innovation in General Education."
International Studies Association, 2001. Chair: "Foreign
Policy Adaptation to Systemic Change." Roundtable participant: "Global
Studies Programs Linked Via the Internet." Discussant: "Global Capital
- Global Labour?"
International Studies Association, 2000. Paper: "Civil
Society, Social Capital and Economic Development." Discussant: "Congress
and U.S. Trade Policy."
American Association of Colleges and Universities conference,
Washington, D.C., January 18-22, 2000. Spoke on Drake Curriculum and First Year Seminar
Program.
Conference on "Comparative and International Politics"
the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Presented talk on "The Domestic Politics
of U.S. Trade Policy." November, 1999.
International Studies Association, 1999. Paper: "Principle
and Politics: U.N. Funding and the Veto of Helms-Biden." Discussant: "Congress
and Foreign Policy."
International Studies Association, 1998. Paper: "Between
Leadership and Retreat: Presidents, Foreign Policy and Domestic Opinion." Discussant:
"The Politics of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy."
International Studies Association, 1996. Paper: "Nations:
A Simulation Game in International Politics." Discussant: "The Political
Economy of International Investment."
International Studies Association, 1995. Roundtable
Chair: "Contested Social Orders and International Politics."
Iowa Conference of Political Scientists, 1994. Discussant:
"NAFTA and Mexico."
International Studies Association, 1994. Paper: "Rethinking
Realist Interpretations of the Cold War (and Beyond): Balance of Power or Competing
Social Orders?" Chair: "New World Order."
Joint Meeting of Midwest International Studies Association
and Foreign Policy Analysis Sections, 1993. Paper: "Manipulating
Domestic Cleavages: The President, The Congress and the Struggle Over U.S. China
Policy. (co-authored with William Gates)" Paper: "Rethinking Realist
Interpretations of the Cold War...." Discussant: "Topics in U.S.
Foreign Policy."
International Studies Association, 1993. Paper: "Manipulating
Domestic Cleavages...." Discussant: "Non-State Actors and Foreign
Policy Making."
Iowa Conference of Political Scientists, 1992. Paper:
"Kenneth Waltz and the Evolution of Modern Realism."
International Studies Association, 1991. Chair: "Non-State
Actors and the Foreign Policy Process - I." Discussant: "Non-State
Actors and the Foreign Policy Process - II."
Eighth Presidential Conference: Jimmy Carter, Hofstra
University, 1990. Paper: "Foreign Policy Interest Groups and Presidential
Power: Jimmy Carter and the Battle Over Ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties."
Iowa Conference of Political Scientists, 1990. Paper:
"The Politics of National Security Policy: Interest Groups, Coalitions and the
SALT II Debate." Chair: The Domestic Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy."
International Studies Association, 1990. Paper: "Vested
Interests and U.S. Foreign Policy: Elite Mobilization During the Seventies."
Chair: "State, Society and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy."
International Studies Association, 1989. Paper:
"Explaining State Responses to International Change: The Structural Sources
of U.S. Policy Rigidity." Discussant: "Bretton Woods, Keynesianism,
and the Internationalization of Capital."
American Political Science Association, 1988. Paper:
"The Politics of Decline: International Adjustment Versus Domestic Legitimacy
during the Carter Administration."
International Studies Association, 1988. Paper: "The
Politics of Decline...." Chair: "Puerto Rico as a Development Model."
Discussant: "Aid and Change in the International Political Economy."
International Studies Association, 1987. Paper:
"Hegemony, State Weakness and Ideological Constraints on Policy Change:
The Case of the Carter Administration." Discussant: "Non-State Actors,
International Cooperation and East-West Relations."
Awards and Grants Received (In-House)
Selected as 2002 Stalnaker Lecturer.
Nominated for Madelyne Levitt Mentor of the Year Award, 1999, 2004.
Drake Center for the Humanities.
Arthur Vining Davis Fund.
Drake Faculty Research Grant.
Drake Faculty Development Fund.
Sabbatical leave, 1996-97, 2004-2005.
EXTERNAL GRANTS
Project
Director, Title VIa Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages Grant
(Department of Education): "Ethics in a Globalizing World," 6/2006-5/2008.
JOURNAL REFEREE
Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Quarterly;
International Studies Notes; Presidential Studies Quarterly; The Historian; European
Journal of International Relations; Global Society; Journal of International Relations
and Development.
Book Referee
Longman.
Northern Illinois Press.
For CQ Press.
For Grawemeyer Award.
For Chatham House.
For Rowman and Littlefield.
For Harcourt, Brace and Co.
For St. Martins Press.
For Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Foreign
Affairs Custom Database, "Among Nations: Readings in International
Relations.
International Studies Intensives Book Series, Paradigm Publishers.
WORKSHOPS AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
"Global Peace and Security from Multiple
Perspectives," United States Institute of Peace, July 25-30, 2006.
Faculty co-leader on three week trip to China organized by Drake University for local
retirees, May-June, 2006.
Led faculty workshop on "Grassroots Globalism Transnational Movements in an
Age of Globalization," May, 2005.
CIEE Faculty Seminar to Vietnam and Cambodia, January 3-13, 2005.
Summer Institute on Interdisciplinary Studies, Drake University, August 2-12, 2004.
Summer Institute on Science Education for New Civic Engagements
and Responsibilities (SENCER), San Jose, California, August 2-5, 2002.
Center for Global Education workshop on "All our Futures:
Education for Global Citizenship." Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 11-18, 2002.
Conference on the First Year Experience, Orlando, February 15-18, 2002.
IES Familiarization Trip to Argentina and Chile, November
11-17, 2001.
Attended CIEE/IFDS Seminar on "U.S.-Mexican Relations
and the Region's Future, University of Guadalahara, Guadalahara, Mexico, June 3-12,
2001.
Attended four week intensive Spanish language training program,
ILISA language school, San Jose, Costa Rica, May-June, 1999.
Study trip to Nicaragua, sponsored by Drake University and
the Center for Global Education, May, 1999.
Workshop on Foreign Language Mission Project, San Diego,
Ca., February, 1998.
Study trip to Mexico (Chiapas and Mexico City) sponsored
by Drake University and the Center for Global Education, May 14-25, 1996.
"Workshop on Writing Synthetic Reviews," sponsored
by the Mershon International Studies Review, held at ISA Conference, April, 1996.
Drake workshop on Active Learning, February 2, 1996.
"Involving Students in Active and Collaborative Learning."
Workshop sponsored by AAC&U. Chicago, October 20-21, 1995.
Chosen in competitive selection process to participate in
six week faculty seminar on "International Economics and National Politics"
at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
Summer, 1994.
Eighth Annual Peace and World Security Studies Summer Faculty
Institute, Hampshire College, June, 1993. Topic: "The Tripolar Nexus:
The U.S., Germany and Japan."
Workshop to design new interdisciplinary course titled "The
Sustainable Society," Drake University, Summer, 1991.
International Studies Association Leadership Conference,
June 9-11, 1989, Ohio State University.
Third Annual Peace and World Security Studies Summer Faculty
Institute, Hampshire College, June, 1987. Topic: "The Soviet Union in
the Gorbachev Era."
Hamilton Faculty Workshop on Writing Across the Curriculum.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Professional Service
Program Co-Chair, Joint Meeting of International Studies
Association Midwest Regional Section and Foreign Policy Analysis Section, October
29-30, 1993, Chicago.
President, Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International
Studies Association, 1989-90.
Vice President, Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International
Studies Association, 1988-89. Organized FPA Section panels for 1989 conference in
London.
Major Departmental, College and University Responsibilities
Director of the Center for Global Citizenship, July, 2002-present.
Director of the Drake Curriculum, Fall, 2000-2004.
Associate Dean for Curricular Development, College of Arts
and Sciences, Fall, 1999-Spring, 2001.
Coordinator of First Year Seminar Program, Fall, 1999- 2004.
Faculty Supervisor, Drake Undergraduate Social Science Journal,
1999-2003.
Member of Task Force to design new Center for Global Citizenship,
Spring, 2001-Fall, 2001.
Principal designer of new curriculum program titled "Paths
to Knowledge."
Faculty Roles and Rewards Work Group, 2000.
First Year Student Advisor, 1998-99.
Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, 1998-99.
Acting Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Spring,
1998.
Strategic Planning Committee, College of Arts and Sciences,
Spring, 1998-present.
General Education Committee on International and Multicultural
Outcomes, 1997-98.
Director, International Relations Program, Fall 1997-Summer,
2000.
Director of Elsworth and Sylvia Woods Fund, Fall, 1997-Summer,
2000.
Chair, International Studies Review Committee, Spring/Summer,
1996.
Organized series of five faculty seminars on Active and
Collaborative Learning, Drake University, Spring, 1996.
Search Committee Chair, Political Science Department, Fall,
1994.
University Budget Committee, 1993-94.
Faculty Senate, 1993-94.
Advisory Board, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies
Program.
Shared Department Chair responsibilities, Fall, 1991.
Divisional representative to Arts and Sciences Council,
Drake University, 1990-92.
Ad hoc Committee on Revision of Tenure and Promotion Procedures,
Drake University, 1991.
Public Speaking
Invited
Speaker: "Prospects for Political Reform in China," Pioneer Asian American
Network, July 11, 2006
Keynote speaker: "International Education for All: Do We Really Mean it?"
Teaching Symposium, Indiana University Southeast, January 27, 2006.
Delivered talks on "Justice, Reconciliation and the Legacies of the Khmer Rouge
in Cambodia," UN Association, Global Ambassadors, International Law Society,
March, 2005.
Delivered talk on foreign aid and global poverty
at Hunger Banquet, Drake University, November 20, 2003.
Delivered talk to Drake Alumni Association: "America's Changing Image Abroad."
November 6, 2003.
Stalnaker Lecture: "Global
Visions: Fukuyama's Dream, Huntington's Nightmare and a Grassroots Reverie." September 25, 2002.
Panel discussion on prospects for peace after 9/11, sponsored
by Iowa Council for International Understanding, January, 2002.
Delivered MLK Day Address on "Transnational Social
Movements in an Age of Globalization." February 6, 2000.
Facilitated discussion on "What Have I Learned: Reflections
on the Midwest Experience" for returning international students. Sponsored by
Iowa Council for International Understanding, April 10, 1999.
Delivered talk on "Human Rights in China," Women
s International League for Peace and Freedom, November 18, 1998.
Invited guest lecturer, Seminar on International Trade,
West Virginia Consortium for Faculty and Course Development in International Studies.
November 16-17, 1998.
Delivered talk on "Human Rights in China," Central
Presbyterian Church, September 27, 1998.
Panel Discussion on Tiananmen Square and human rights in
China, Drake University, April 14, 1998.
Delivered talk on "China Threat: Myth or Reality?"
before meeting of Phi Sigma Alpha student group, November 19, 1997.
Participant in panel on "Fast-Track Trade Legislation"
sponsored by the International Traders of Iowa, November 18, 1997.
Symposium panelist: "Globalization, Privatization,
and Third World Development." Grinnell College, October 9, 1997.
Invited guest, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Eurasian Regional
Economy, June, 1997.
Delivered talk at Faculty Bag Lunch series, Hopkins-Nanjing
Center for Chinese and American Studies, Spring, 1997. Topic: "After Tiananmen:
The Struggle Over U.S. Policy Toward China in the Bush Administration."
Served as discussion leader for Austin College Summer Seminar
on "American Foreign Policy in Transition;" Washington D.C., August
4-19, 1995.
Invited guest speaker, Department of Political Science,
Iowa State University, March, 1995. Presentation titled "Rethinking Realist
Interpretations of the Cold War and Beyond."
Delivered talk on "Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
in the New World Order," Political Science Association Bag Lunch Program, March,
1995.
Speech to Des Moines United National Association titled
"Collective Security in the Post-Cold War Era." January and April
(two talks), 1995.
Participated in panel discussion on NAFTA. Sponsored
by Drake International Legal Society, November, 1993.
Invited guest speaker, Kennedy International Center, Brigham
Young University. Gave three talks including public presentation titled "War
and Peace in the New Europe," Feb., 1991.
Two talks on Drake campus, both titled "The Gulf War:
Implications for American Foreign Policy," February, 1991.
Speech to Des Moines Golden Kiwanis Club titled "Three
Myths about the Vietnam War," June, 1990.
Campus and Community Activities
Advisory Board, Iowa Sister States, 2003-present.
Board of Directors, United Nations Association, Iowa Division, Spring, 1998-Spring,
2000.
Vice President (1998); President (1999), U.N. Association
of Greater Des Moines.
Faculty Adviser to Drake International Relations Organization,
1993-95, 1997-present.
Co-founder and Faculty Adviser to campus Amnesty International
chapter, Drake University, 1989-92.
Committee for Justice in the Middle East, Stanford University.
Board of Directors: Co-operative Housing of Palo Alto, Inc.
City Council Appointee: East Palo Alto Rental Housing Legislative
Task Force.
Steering Committee: East Palo Alto Council of Tenants.
Block Organizer: East Palo Alto Citizens Committee on Incorporation.