Faculty Advisor
I’ve been working at the Monterey Herald for 21 years, coming to the Peninsula from the San Jose Mercury News where I worked for about 15 years. I’ve been teaching journalism classes at CSUMB for four years and have also worked with students at UC Santa Cruz for 14 years. I began my professional career while at College of San Mateo, covering high school football games, pounding out stories on a manual typewriter only to have them marked up in a lot of red by a chain-smoking editor. I moved on to earn my degree at San Jose State, where I graduated to writing stories on an electric typewriter. I’ve done various post-grad training programs, including earning a certificate from UC Berkeley in digital media, yet I still needed help from my granddaughter to set up Spotify. My most important role for the Lutrinae, I’m told, is to bring baked goods for the news meetings.