Janet moved to the San Geronimo Valley in 1984.  She worked in medical records for almost a decade and then in the Marin County Free Library system for 21 years.  She has also devoted many hours making quilts and other fabric and textile creations. In 2009, after a divorce and the sale of her home, she moved to the Forest Knolls mobile home park.  If not for that option she would have needed to leave the San Geronimo Valley, as rent and certainly home ownership was becoming more than she could afford.

She is deeply grateful for the opportunity to stay in the Valley and joined the Board in 2023 to help make the same option available to other people unable to afford the rising cost of living here.