About Cathy and Alex
About Cathy Deppe
Cathy Deppe is a long-time activist, teacher, and employment counselor who has worked with 9to5, The National Association of Working Women. She has been a teacher in San Jose and Los Angeles.
She is also a longtime peace activist who was active with the Dutchess County Peace Center and the Carribean and Latin America Support Project in New York, the Mobilization for Survival in Boston, and the San Jose Peace Center in Northern California. She is a part-time organizer for of 9to5 in California. As a freelance writer she has contributed to the Somerville Community News in Somerville, Massachusetts, and the Women’s Voice in California. She has written a recent article for California Progress Report.
About Alex Walker
I was born and raised in Virginia. I have been a software engineer in Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts before settling in California. While living and working in the Hudson Valley of New York served as vice-president of the Northern Dutchess NAACP and co-chair of the Dutchess County Committee Against Racism in Poughkeepsie, New York. I have contributed freelance writing to The Poughkeepsie Journal and Taconic Newspapers in the Hudson Valley, the Somerville Journal and the Somerville Community News in Somerville, Massachusetts, and the Milpitas Post in Milpitas, California.
I have also contributed commentary to the Black Commentator, California Greening, and web sites. I Graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia and attended graduate school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Just recently, my commentary on the “race talk” in the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama campaign was posted on a national web site: “Dissent: No More Race Talk,” by Alex Walker, The Black Commentator, May 22, 2008).
The photo at the top is a snapshot of Cathy and me with my complex extended family at a Christmas vacation in the San Bernadino Mountains (For years I’ve tried to get this crew to pose for an old-fashioned Sears family photo but I guess they think that is too bourgeois). The picture includes my wife, Cathy Deppe, her two daughters, Amanda and Jennifer, Cathy’s first husband, George Touchton, one of the two sons-in-law, Robyn, two granddaughters and two grandsons.
Republicans say we are not a “Real American” family; Democrats say Alex Walker is not a “Real Black Man” — Two reasons why I am a proud, active, registered member of the California Green Party.
A MONTAGE OF PICTURES FROM OUR GLORY DAYS IN THE 1990s
Click to See Jennifer vs Johanne…
