She is the co-founder of the Televote method of deliberative polling; was the co-founder of the first mediation center in Hawaii (The Community Mediation Service); and is the author of Televote: Expanding Citizen Participation in the Quantum Age. In addition, she was the coordinator for the U.S. Green Movement's national platform in 1990 and the coordinator for the Transformational Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (1992-95). She maintains her sanity, however, by lifting weights and the spirits of her two chocolate Labrador retrievers, Truffles and Kahlua.