BAYMEC.
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your political voice
Bay
Area Municipal Elections Committee
MEET
THE BAYMEC BOARD MEMBERS
LESLIE BULBUK is a Senior Field Representative for Assemblywoman
Sally
Lieber. She has been involved in LGBT political advocacy at the County,
State and Federal levels.
Her dedication to increasing LGBT rights grew when she nearly lost her
foreign-born partner, Marta Donayre, due to unequal U.S. immigration
policy.
In 2001, she co-founded Love Sees No Borders, a public education
organization focused on obtaining immigration benefits for same-sex
binational couples and advocating for elimination of the US HIV ban. Much
of her work has been focused on bringing greater understanding of LGBT
issues to the immigrant community, and greater understanding of immigrant issues to the LGBT community, in an attempt to increase the scope of our movement toward equal rights for all.
ROBERT GREELEY is an employment attorney in solo practice in San Jose, handling all kinds of cases for employees, including discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, severance agreements, and leaves of absence. He was previously a staff attorney for the non-profit AIDS Legal Services in San Jose for 4 years and has been an activist in the LGBT community for over 15 years, heading up such groups as South Bay GLAAD, the Safe Schools Coalition, and the Rainbow Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Association.
KRISTIN LONG is an Assistant District Attorney for the County of Santa Cruz. (more details to be provided soon).
EVAN LOW is a member of the City Council for the City of Campbell. (more details to be provided soon).
THANH
NGO is currently a Deputy District Attorney in the Santa Clara District
Attorney's Office. He joined BAYMEC after relocating to San José with his partner. Thanh is active in many community-based organizations
and Board of Directors for groups such as Asian Law Alliance, Santa
Clara County Human Relations Commissions, Oakland Asian Cultural Center,
Vietnamese American Civil Rights Coalition, Huong Viet Community Center,
VNHelp, Vietnamese American Bar Association, Asian American Bar Association
of Silicon Valley, the National Lesbian and Gay Legal Association,
and Community United Against Violence.
RICHARD POPPEN joined the board in the spring of 2008. (more details to be provided soon).
NOELANI SALLINGS had been an advocate for education, 
women's rights
and social justice for as long as she can remember. She served on boards
for non-profits like the Santa Clara Schools founda-tion, DAWN, and NextVista. Although, her
primary focus is education, she also fights for women's rights, social
justice and the environment. She is running for the Santa Clara Unified School Board in November 2008.
Noelani co-organized "Walk for Education", a protest walk against
budget cuts. She then was asked to speak on a "No Child Left Behind"
panel. Noelani earned a BS in Psychology from Santa Clara University and is
working on a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from Notre Dame de
Namur. Noelani is the first in her family to go to college and plans
to obtain her PhD.
She will spend the rest of her life being a voice for those who are not heard.
In
1968, WIGGSY SIVERTSEN was fired from an agency where she had
worked for five years when they found out she was a lesbian. It was
at that point she decided that freedom for lesbian and gay people
and other "at risk" communities was going to be a major
driving force in her life. This commitment led her to co-found BAYMEC
with current San José City Councilman, Ken Yeager, in 1984.
Wiggsy is presently the Director of Counseling Services and a visiting
professor in Sociology at San José State University.