Anita Stewart is a licensed medical professional, artist, freelance writer, blogger and photographer, independent publicist, political professional and New Media and Virtual Outreach expert. Anita was born in Detroit and grew up in a rock and roll radio station in Pennsylvania that her father owned, so news, media and music has always been an important part of her life. Anita is a USAF veteran and worked as an Intelligence Operations Specialist in the US and in Europe. While attending the University of Maryland, where she studied English, Film and Journalism, she worked for Arbitron Radio Ratings in Laurel and Beltsville, MD and the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC and was a member of the AFL-CIO Local 25 Hotel and Restaurant Worker's Union. That's where her activism began as she worked with the Union, Rainbow Push Coalition and other local organizations to assure that women and people of color were hired as servers in the 5 star restaurants. Anita was one of the first organizers of Chapter 119, the Tampa Bay Veterans for Peace and of Code Pink Tampa Bay and the Tampa Bay Indymedia Collective. From December of 2006 until June of 2007 Anita volunteered on the Virtual Outreach team for the Kucinich for President 2008 Campaign. She became an official member of the campaign staff in July of 2007. With Code Pink Tampa Bay, she has worked with other local and statewide peace groups. Currently she serves on the Board of Trustees for the Florida Green Party and on the Media Committee and Women's Caucus for the US Green Party. She also does the social networking sites for the Florida Green Party. She volunteered as a virtual outreach coordinator for the Cynthia McKinney Presidential Campaign in 2008 and was on the official Media Team. Anita still handles the official Cynthia McKinney MySpace, Twitter and Facebook pages and works on the social networks for Cynthia McKinney's new project, the Dignity Action Network. She also still maintains the unofficial Dennis Kucinich MySpace page. Anita is a strong believer in working to change the course of our country by reforming our media and electoral processes, by using the Internet to organize Green, Independent and other Third Party voters and by actively supporting and electing Independents, Greens and Progressives for Congress and Senate that are not corporate "owned." All voices need to be heard in a fair, just and democratic election! When Anita has any spare time, she is singing, listening to music, writing, painting, playing on the Internet or taking care of Hospice patients. Old Indymedia blogs are here:
http://zalala.blogspot.com