Patti has a long history of organizing in both Denver and Los Angeles. Her over 40 years of community organizing began with being leadership of the Pacific Southwest district of the Jr. JACL, helped to organize a community action group in South Central LA (Comite de Igualdad), served in a leadership role with an Asian Women’s Group, organized in Denver in the early 80s an immigration conference drawing leaders from Latino, Asian, East Indian and religious communities, helped with finding homes and social services for centroamericanos seeking refuge in the US, to organizing and serving on the Board of Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart, an organization engaged in Aurora, NE Park Hill, East Montclair and what is now known as Central Park doing community-based participatory research. She finished doctoral classes in the Health & Behavioral Sciences program at UCD. She is a MSW with teaching experience in Health and Community Practice at the DU Graduate School of Social Work, UCLA Asian American Studies, and worked developing curricula with the ABC Pride Program based out of Cal State Los Angeles. She has served on the Boards and Commissions of the LA Unified School District, Healthy Food for Denver Kids, Sustainable Food Policy Council, and Environmental Justice panel of the Climate Action Sustainability and Resilience office in Denver. Her work in Public Health included working on a national cancer information line, helping with other activist women to push the National Cancer Institute to create written materials that are understandable to low literate audiences, expanded breast cancer screening to low income, largely people of color communities with high rates of breast cancer. She worked at MD Anderson Comprehensive Cancer Center as a licensed social worker, and later in their community outreach arena with a group called Latinos in a Network for Cancer Control. She is a founding member of Food Justice NW Aurora, serving now as Board Chair. She has two kids—one in Canada and a daughter in the Bay Area. She just finished her first visit to Japan—visiting ancestral grounds in Chiba—a prefecture outside Tokyo and Hiroshima.