CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Real estate professional, entrepreneur, writer, teacher, fundraiser, arts organizer. BA, Summa cum Laude, 4.0 GPA, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors English Writing and French w/ Spanish minor, Queens College of the CUNY, 1977. Founded nonprofits and festivals which continue to exist and thrive. Taught and tutored Spanish, French and English in Mexico, France, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. Raise funds for indigenous migrant-worker families in Baja California Sur, MX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Broker, Prudential Taos Real Estate. Taos, NM
January 2007—Present
Buy, list and sell land, homes and businesses in Taos County, NM. Specialize in sustainable land use via permaculture, feng shui, alternative energy sources and green building.

Associate Broker, Coldwell Banker Lota Realty, Taos, NM
August 2006—January 2007
Bought, listed and sold land, homes and businesses in Taos County, NM.

Teach Spanish and ESL in Todos Santos, BCS, MX, & Taos, NM
November 2003–Present
Have FM3 and legally teach small classes of North Americans and Mexicans, all ages and levels, in MX during winter and spring and in NM during summer and fall.

Southwest Products, Ltd
1991–2003
NM S-Corporation including retail store, drum manufacturing & mail-order/wholesale divisions

President
Responsible for sales, marketing, PR, hiring/training staff of retail store, Southwest Moccasin & Drum, and for All One Tribe®, the drum manufacturing and mail-order division. Accomplishments include:

• Patented the handle for the All One Tribe® Drum
• Worked with Native American artists to develop lines of copyrighted drum designs
• Founded the non-profit All One Tribe® Foundation, a global organization supporting indigenous world causes and promoting world unity, using the drum as a symbol and tool.
• Created a global event for world peace, “Drumming In the Year 2000,” in which people around the world drummed together as the midnight hour arrived in cities around the world on Dec 31st repeating “As we drum, we are one” in many languages.

Taught English in Costa Rica (San Jose) and MX (San Miguel de Allende)
1989–1991
Privately taught and tutored adults in all levels of Spanish and ESL

The Historic Taos Inn
1981–1989
A small, historic hotel in the heart of Taos with an award-winning restaurant and bar

Co-Owner/ Marketing Director
Raised the capital to buy and restore a run-down 42-room hotel and then secured its inclusion on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Took occupancy from 36% to 98% when we sold our interest in 1989. Wrote all promotional materials and training manuals. Accomplishments include:

• Built renowned wine list for Doc Martin’s restaurant and received the Wine Specatator’s Award of Excellence, naming Doc Martin’s one of the top 100 wine lists in the world.
• Opened the popular Adobe Bar, which became (and remains) the “Living room of Taos.”
• Founded the non-profit Taos Spring Arts Celebration, now in its 25rd year, an “Open door on the visual, performing and literary arts in Taos.”
• Started the “Meet-the-Artist” Series at the Historic Taos Inn, now in its 46th season (2x/ year).

CBS, Inc. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
1977–1981
Third-largest publisher of college textbooks in the world at that time.

College Representative, Providence, RI (1977-1979)
Called on professors in all courses of the college curriculum to promote Holt’s textbooks throughout RI, and parts of MA and CT. Exceeded sales quota for both years.
Senior Acquisitions Editor, Chicago Il (1979 – 1981)
Traveled to colleges and universities nationwide to sign professors to author textbooks for Dryden Press, the business textbook division of Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Exceeded signing quota both years.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Summa cum Laude
• Who’s Who in America (1989—2006)
• Who’s Who of American Women (1987—2006)
• Outstanding Single Contributor to the Arts in Taos
• Outstanding English Student Award

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND BOARDS OF DIRECTORS

• Director, Taos County Chamber of Commerce
• Director and Vice-President, Taos Art Association
• Founder, “A Taste of Taos,” “Yuletide in Taos”
• Founder/President, Taos Spring Arts Celebration
• Co-Founder, Spring Arts, New Mexico
• Founder and President, All One Tribe Foundation
• Presenter, Whole Life Expo, Phoenix, “New Research on Drumming and Wellness”
• Workshop Leader, SW Yoga Conference, Albuquerque, “Neuro-biofeedback and Drumming”
• Producer, “Drumming in the Year 2000,” a global event for Unity in cities around the world, “Out of the Fire,” a benefit for victims of the ’96 Lama fire, and the “All One Tribe Fall Drumming Festival,” bringing in some of the world’s finest drummers for performances and workshops.