Who Are The Organizers?
Jim Preston
- Silicon Valley techie.
- Previous organizing experience:
- Founded and co-founded small businesses in various industries, states, and countries. 1960's to present.
- US West Coast Draft Resistance leader 1969 - 1972. A felony at the time but we won - the draft ended.
- Organizer for the famous Grape Boycott. Considered by Cesar Chavez one of his best organizers. 1969 - 1970. We won, sort of.
- Co-founded a Boy Scout and a Girl Scout troop in California. Early 1960's.
- Co-founded a foster care association and was a foster parent.
- Co-founded or had a leadership role in various Rotary International foreign projects. Was a main leader in expanding Rotary across most of Russia in the 1990's.
- Founded an organization of diverse private, governmental, and corporate interests to perform environmental and recreational projects in Alaska.
- Sponsored and lead Junior Achievement groups.
- Current works on a variety of business projects that involve cutting edge innovations and the Internet.
- Married, no kids, intellectual, secular humanist, political moderate, enjoy wine tasting road trips, backpacking, mountain biking, sailing, travel, science.
Anyone else interested in organizing Evidists or something like this concept?