Born in 1957. Raised in California. Attended Hawaii Loa College, Reed College, the University of Grenoble. Sailed around the world from 1976 to 1978.  She traveled, wrote, and organized art exhibitions in the 80’s.  In 1988 she met Jean-Luc Brouillet and moved to Palo Alto. Their sons, Jules, Jeremy, and Daniel are 23, 21, and 18 years old. Jules graduated from Oberlin, Jeremy is a junior at Dartmouth, and Daniel is a freshman at the Colorado School of Mines.

In 1992, she saw the film, “JFK’ and began researching the CIA. She became a “media activist” to raise critical issues that were censored or ignored by the corporate press.  In '93 she edited The Invisible Nuclear War- about the health effects of low-level radiation and nuclear issues.

She co-founded the International Media Project, the Who's Counting? Project, the 9-11 Truth Alliance, and the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance. All non-profit organizations, that seek to connect people, vital ideas, and important information to nurture healthy social change, economic justice and ecological sustainability.

She co-sponsored the first Local Currency Conference. She organized a panel and workshop on local currencies at The Other Economic Summit in Colorado in 1997. She has spoken and given workshops on Global Economics, Money, and Community Currencies in the U.S., Italy, and Brazil. Her paper “Reinventing Money, Restoring the Earth, Reweaving the Web of Life” was recognized as “one of the best ideas for the new millennium.”  She organized three conferences on “Strategies to Transform the Global Economy.” In January 2001, she helped mobilize North Americans to attend the first World Social Forum in Brazil. She was working against the FTAA, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, and corporate globalization, in September 2001. Shaken by the events of September 11th, she has worked to counter the assaults upon civil liberties and oppose the “War on Terrorism,” war on Afghanistan, war on Iraq, by exposing the underlying truths behind the war propaganda.

From October 2001 to October 2007, she held a weekly Listening Project- every Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Lytton Plaza, in Downtown Palo Alto. Now she holds it on the 11th of every month, in solidarity with truthaction.org, and the global 9/11 Truth movement. She is the publisher of the Deception Dollar, which includes a Media bill, an Election Deception, a Conception Dollar, and a Perception Dollar; over seven million have been distributed.

In  2003, she organized Premieres of Aftermath- Unanswered Questions from 9-11.  She organized the comedy benefits Behind Every Terrorist- There is a Bush, and the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9-11, Phase One, in 2004. The Inquiry attracted many journalists, documentary filmmakers, and helped spark the growing 9-11 Truth Movement. She also helped with, and spoke at the International Citizens’ Inquiry into 9-11, Phase Two, in Toronto, May 2004.

When she discovered that Congresswoman Eshoo was a Co-Sponsor of legislation, which would reorganize and expand the “Intelligence Agencies,” she organized a series of protests and rallies in August and September 2004, against the "Police State Legislation."

In 2005, she, organized a series of premieres of Barrie Zwicker’s documentary- The Great Conspiracy- The 9-11 News Special You Never Saw.  The San Francisco Bay Guardian highlighted her in its cover story on the 9-11 Truth Movement.

In 2005, she organized an Art Contest with the theme- 9-11 Truth for Peace and Justice. She produced a film version of Behind Every Terrorist- There is a Bush, which has been featured on Free Speech TV.  In 2006 she ran for Congress, and helped organize events which drew national attention to the existence of the 9/11 Truth Movement. In 2007 she worked for Impeachment, Peace, and 9/11 Truth and began hosting a weekly radio show- Questioning War- Organizing Resistance on We The People Radio Network . She organized a 9/11 Truth Rally/March in San Francisco & a 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on the 7th anniversary of the attacks.

In 2008, she decided to run for Congress, again, although health concerns took the wind out of her sails.  After a biopsy with benign results in July, she worked again on the 9/11 Film Festival, Truth Rally and Marches, and created a TV ad for the campaign.  The financial crisis drew her back to working on changing the monetary system, and developing the Perception Dollar as a consciousness raising tool.

In 2010, she began hosting the weekly Community Currency on the Progressive Radio Network and spoke at the AMI Monetary Reform Conference on Strategy for the Monetary Reform Movement.  In 2011, she also organized a benefit for the victims of the Gulf Oil disaster that called for ending corporate personhood, joined and supported rallies against the nuclear industry calling for the shutdown of nuclear power plants. She also organized with the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance the annual 9/11 Film Festival, Rally and March, and participated in and supported the Occupations in Chicago, D.C. (At Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square), Jacksonville, San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, and Stanford.