CU Regent for the Second Congressional District
Chair, Capital Construction Committee
Co-Chair, Laws and Policies Committee
Chair, Regents Awards Committee
Board Representative to City of Boulder/CU Working Group
Lead Board Advocate for Sudan Divestment
Opposed Republican redistricting in Salazar v. Anderson at Colorado Supreme Court
Testified before House Education Committee
Championed reforms that strengthened CU Foundation
Participated in oversight over nearly $2 billion annual budget and Colorado's third largest employer
Advocated for student, staff, and faculty governance, and for transparency, accountability, and academic freedom

First Director, Virgil Grillo Center for Cancer

Boulder City Council
Proposed chlorofluorocarbon ban 20 years ago
Sponsored Boulder's first pesticide ordinance
Proponent of country's first "bubble zone" to protect access to health care facilities and a woman's right to choose
Chair, Ad Hoc Transportation Committee for Boulder's first Transportation Master Plan
Helped broker agreement creating CU Research Park
Lead advocate for Tributary Trails/Greenway Plan
Homeless Shelter Task Force
Boulder Jobs to Population Task Force

Awards and Citations
Woman of the Year, UC-Boulder Women's Resource Center
Boulder Daily Camera Pacesetter
Gates Fellowship to Kennedy School of Government
Award for Special Service to the Tibetan People, International Campaign for Tibet, presented by Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of the Dalai Lama
Carlisle Distinguished Service Award, Center for Energy and Environmental Security

Boards
Center for Energy and Environmental Security, CU Law School
CU Art and Art History Advisory Board, Boulder Campus
New Era Colorado
Executive Committee, Boulder County Democratic Party
Boulder County Democratic Women
Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
Steering Committee, Boulder AIDS Walk
Committee for Campaign Reform Boulder
Ecocycle

Education
B.A., English, University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A., English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Certificate, Program in State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Family
Dara Kerr, Program Officer, Campaign Against Trafficking, Equality Now
Baine Kerr, law student, UCLA Law School
Husband Baine Kerr, Boulder lawyer and novelist
Nuria Linares, Salvadoran student sponsored at Regis University

Birder, lover of hula and Yeats, and Boulder resident for 40 years
"Dang Near a Native"

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