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Catalina’s List was inspired and affirmed by a conference called «Sister Giant» held the weekend after the 2012 election. There, progressive spiritual leader, Marianne Williamson issued a call to action for women to participate to «bring humanitarian principles and the love ethic» to the world of politics for a better today and future.
The mission of Catalina’s List is clear: identify, recruit, train, and support progressive women to participate in politics: from learning citizen civic engagement to running for elected and appointed seats in the Inland Empire and beyond at all levels of politics.
We provide an opportunity for membership and sponsorship to those who see value in our mission and want to contribute how they can; in time, energy, wisdom, money or other resources.
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History
Established in 2012.
Catalina’s List was inspired and affirmed by a conference called «Sister Giant» held the weekend after the 2012 election. There, progressive spiritual leader, Marianne Williamson issued a call to action for women to participate to «bring humanitarian principles and the love ethic» to the world of politics for a better today and future.
The event highlighted the moral imperative of addressing three key issues:
pervasive poverty in the United States,
the tremendous incarceration rate, and
the influence of money in politics and therefore, policy
And, after the all-too-familiar events in Connecticut just before the holidays, Sister Giant added:
the tragic consequences of gun violence.
On November 13th, one week after the election, the three women who attended the event, Leticia Garcia, Jocelyn Sida, and Bobbi Jo Chavarria, established Catalina’s List to find a new kind of political candidate and support team to answer that call.
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Bobbi Jo C.
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Bobbi Jo Chavarria Co-Founder, President/COO
Bobbi Jo Chavarria has been involved in human rights and peace activism since joining the campaign for a United States Department of Peace in 2006. That decision has changed the direction of her professional career. Retiring from a long-time career in direct sales and management, Bobbi Jo turned her focus to global issues of peace, conflict-resolution and nonviolence and then, when her first child was born in 2008, turned that focus to her own local community. She ran for Mayor of her hometown in November 2010 and has since been involved in campaigns championing measures in support of funding for schools at both the local and state level.