A long-time Sausalito resident, Cheryl is a marketing communications specialist by trade. After three decades in corporate America (her last gig was as Director of Communications for Credit Suisse First Boston) and another decade as a marketing consultant and freelance writer, she opened Sausalito Books by the Bay – an independent community bookstore on the waterfront in downtown Sausalito.

An active member of the Sausalito community she serves on the Marin Humane Board of Directors, and also chairs the Sausalito-Cascais Portugal Sister City program and its youth sailing exchange program. Cheryl was a founding director & curator for the Sausalito Film Festival and is an active member of the Sausalito Woman’s Club. She was the 2011 recipient of the Spirit of Marin award.

A published writer, former radio talk show host and journalist, she is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, and graduate of U.C. Berkeley.