Sandi Picker Park

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Attended the University of Wisconsin –Madison (BS 1967) In 1966 I married Bob Park, WFB class of ‘60, and divorced in 1981.

I was a member of the City of Madison Community Services Commission for six years in the 1990s, vice chair twice and chair for nearly two years. I was a board member of the Madison YWCA for six years in the 1980s, vice president for three years. I was vice president of my local union and delegate to the local Federation of Labor for many years. I helped form a local State Employees union and served on its first statewide board. I occassionally read the news on a local labor radio show. I have been a member of several Share-the-Care teams for friends with cancer and other health issues, and organized and ran two. I helped on numerous local political campaigns.

I was a career bureaucrat with the State of Wisconsin. I helped youth find jobs when the first high school draftees were returning from Viet Nam - a daunting task since most employers didn't want to hire them because "they had no experience." Most of my bureaucratic career I was a research analyst for the employment service, social services, and public health.

I am currently a Brand Partner with Lucrazon Global, an integrated ecommerce company with very competitive rates for ecommerce and merchant services.

I’ve jumped off a redwood in Muir Woods and gone whitewater rafting, but those kind of things didn’t hold a candle to some of my adventures of being a mother.

I love to play duplicate bridge (especially tournaments), bike and swim outside, take warm water classes at the health club, read fiction, go to plays, and work in and then eat from my vegetable garden. I’m passionate about saving the environment and a number of progressive social issues.

Yes, being retired from the bureaucracy. I loved my job much of the time, but retirement is much much more fun. And now I'm getting to help people save money.

Researched and coauthored a preliminary report of breast cancer incidence in Wisconsin by zip code for a Wisconsin legislator. It was published in a 1997 Wisconsin Medical Journal. The report showed that the two zip codes in Wisconsin with the highest incidence were 53217 (Milwaukee North Shore including Whitefish Bay) and an area in and around Green Bay. I authored numerous annual and special reports about public health, cancer, hospitalizations, disparities in infant mortality, child abuse, day care, and social services.