While serving as Secretary of our Board, in 2000 Christine was privileged to begin a friendship with a beautiful and courageous African-America woman who is incarcerated in Dublin Federal Correction Institution, CA.  She has 3 life sentences and 20 years for a first time non-vicopyolent drug offence.  Through knowing her, we become more aware of the tremendous injustices within the US penal system and felt called to participate in prison reform. Christine consulted for several years at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA as a Project Manager in Kaiser’s National Human Resources group, managed several different projects while at Kaiser.  Some these involved organizational assessment and implementing new organizational structures, as well as implementing new information systems.