Colette Arge:  

When I attended Cupertino High my life was very different... my name was Tom. I have lived in the Pacific NW most of my adult life. After naval service I completed a bachelors degree at Humboldt State and went on to manage natural foods stores for many years. In that work I often had a role in organized labor handling labor agreement negotiations and disputes. I have done graduate work in Human Resources and Employment Law. Tired of running swanky groovy retail-I studied human services, mental health type studies... and worked in crime victim's advocacy in the GBLT community. I ended up on the leadership team of of a parcel delivery facility for several years as online shopping wave blew up. Lately I've been on kind of a 'hippy' bender working in food insecurity arranging for harvest of local crops to food banks.....Expand for more