sentences:  Eastin received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, and her master's degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.After graduation, Eastin taught women's studies and political science at several California community colleges including Ventura College, DeAnza College and Cañada College.Following seven years of teaching, she joined Pacific Telephone in 1979 as an accounting manager and then, as a corporate strategic planner, where she worked for the company that became Pacific Telesis Group and sought to recreate itself in response to the breakup of AT&T.