I’ve lived in Santa Monica most of my life, but was born just outside New York City.  When I was thirteen, my family moved to New Haven.  Graduating from a public high school at 16, I won a full scholarship to Yale, where I was music director of the campus radio station in the late 60s. 

In 1973 I drove cross-country to California, and by 1977 was general manager of KROQ.  Later I became creative director of an L.A. ad agency, did numerous voice-overs, and owned a small commercial radio recording studio on

In the 80s, with an early Apple II computer, I became publisher of an international online newsletter and a local activist on Santa Monica’s Public Electronic Network.  As chair of the PEN Users' Group, I was increasingly involved in homelessness issues, and fought a proposed hotel on the beach at 415 PCH (now, twenty years later, our stunning public beach house).

I served on SMMUSD's technology advisory committee, the City’s Telecomm Working Group, the steering committee of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, and as chair of the Wilshire/Montana Neighborhood Coalition, before being elected to City Council in 1998. Volunteering my computer skills to Santa Monica public schools led to my current career, Macintosh consultant to our district.

Now in my third term on the City Council, I focus on affordable housing and environmental sustainability,
and am Council liaison to the Planning Commission, Housing Commission, Landmarks Commission, Arts Commission, and our Task Force on the Environment.  I’m co-chair of the regional Sustainability Committee for  the Westside Cities Council of Governments, and vice-chair of the California Democratic Party’s Irish-American Caucus — but my greatest pleasure is local,  improving the quality of life here in Santa Monica.

I helped to start the top-rated FM rock station in Connecticut, and broadcasting became my first, very fulfilling, career.

Santa Monica’s Main Street.

Elect Kevin again, in 2010:  Re-election campaign site