California Senior Leaders Program, 2007

About the Project

Acknowledgements

California's 2007 Senior Leaders

2007 Senior Leaders in Action

Networking

Awards

Peer Mentors

Speakers & Trainers

Students

This project is supported by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation and co-sponsored by the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

California's Senior Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007 Selma Rubin

We’ve saved for last, a woman whose commitment over a lifetime, and whose continued contributions in her 90’s, seemed to merit a special award. Back in the 60’s, Selma Rubin was busy helping to found groups like the Santa Barbara Congress of Racial Equality and the Community Environmental Council.  She went on to work with Friends of the Farm Workers,  and the Neighborhood Youth Corps, helping more than 200 at risk youth find jobs and start careers. And she helped start the Santa Barbara chapter of the Gray Panthers, and has served continuously on their board. A former Santa Barbara Woman of the year,” Ms. Rubin helped found the economic justice group PUEBLO in the year 2000, which successfully worked to establish a living wage ordinance in Santa Barbara. And she’s worked on issues from Alzheimer’s to homelessness to international peace and justice. Ms. Rubin’s nominator told us that Selma “has recently slowed down to what most 20 year olds would say is a blistering pace!”   She’s only on 9 boards right now—though she’s treasurer for 4 of them, including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the Pueblo Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union.

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