About

Human rights activist with a passion for history, museums, libraries, and lifelong learning.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• DePaul University

Favorite saying

• ""All of our problems can be solved; some with brains, some with patience, and some you have to wrestle with, like and alligator in a swamp!" - Harold Washington "How I detest the dawn. The grass always looks like it's been left out all night." - Clifton Webb "From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned." - Charles Sumner "Even whores and ugly buildings get respectable if they last long enough." - John Huston "The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man's making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have themselves called into being." – Theodore Roosevelt "When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him." -Bayard Rustin "I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard!" -William Lloyd Garrison "Viva el mongrel!" -Christina Garcia "The public library does not need class. It gives class. Libraries are the keepers of our civilization, libraries and museums. Buildings don’t give you immortality. Cemeteries don’t give you immortality. The only thing that gives you immortality is the book and the library and the museum." -Vartran Gregorian "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx"