Cati Hawkins-Okorie:  

Life Peace and love to all my former classmates and co-workers. Well, since the '60's, I have changed and changed and changed. Most of us probably did the same thing while attempting to "find" ourselves. My workforce participation started with office work at Spreckels Sugar Co. during the hot late '60's. By the early '70's, I worked at the Post Office, then did bookkeeping and taxes and then legal assisting at a community legal defense firm. Then a short stint at U.C. Berkeley (Extension) and San Jose State (Extension). After that, I worked with the Human Resources Corp., Public Advocates (considered law school, but changed my mind), the ACLU, Capp Street Foundation and Legal Aid Society. The thirst for knowledge came upon me again and I majored in African/African-American History, under the Ethnic Studies Program at San Francisco State. My mind was expanded more at this time than any other time in my life. I came out in 1987 and spread the truth about Black history whenever and wherever I can. I visited the Middle East in 1985 with the National Conference of Black Lawyers and worked hard to free South Africa, Haiti, Namibia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, etc. Suffered a severe back injury in Africa in 1990 and an on-the-job injury that put me out for a decade (severe arm nerve damage bilaterally due to an erg...Expand for more