MEET DR. COACH KAY (PREFERRED NAME)

A Commitment to Excellence

My Local, National, and Global Life Work. I have always been involved actively in Oregon since 1999. I came here from Lawrence Kansas in the 1995 fall season with my single mother and my siblings, best friends. This was before our expansions of children, life partners, and allies in Oregon. I was not born in Oregon. I was born in Chicago Illinois. Coming to Oregon in 1995, was a complete cultural shock. I learned soon that I had to adapt and adjust quickly or I would not survive here. 
The wilderness management was meticulous. It was like walking into the garden of Eden. It was beautiful. The maturity of forests in the city, communities, and wilderness. I fell in love with the ecosystems in Oregon. I was speechless. The mountains, ocean, and old-growth forests. I could touch a tree, and plant and the leaves were so very vibrant and healthy. The leaves were not bitter, dry or I could not break them off or crumble from disturbance or lack of nutrients in soil quality. I touched every tree and plant leaf for the first month of arrival. It was like a Utopian world, full of beauty and Quality Care. 
After 26 years, I learned from the beginning of my Oregon journey that was a foreshadowing of my future, a precursor to the development of my campaign for candidacy for Governor, "The Good Stewardship Management" Platform. The inspiration of biodiversity in wilderness management and conservation policies for the environment was immaculate compared to other locations. The quality assurance for wildlife and fisheries management, forestry management, recreation management, and the science of Care transformed my worldview on lifestyle choices. 
Therefore, my values and principles changed. Adaptative Management became part of my socialization processes and best practices model. Maslow's actualization system, needs, and motivation assessment theoretical framework became a super infrastructure for my platform for candidacy to the Governor position for Oregon. Presently, I became motivated by my 26-year journey to present the case for Oregon excellence toward biodiversity using the principles and interdisciplinary models of environmental justice and Restorative Justice as the platform for good practice for stewardship. 
I started my political journey in Oregon with the opportunities with NOW, the National Organization for Women of Oregon as a Board member, Vice President for Membership. I learned how to meticulously account for all members equally and create advocacy for women's social issues in the state of Oregon. Getting the experience and mentorship to endorse candidates, sit on committees for the City, volunteer commissions, police public forums, town meetings, and engage in the Oregon political culture in my early 20's showed me that I definitely was an early bird. 
I was appointed by Mayor Helen Berg of Corvallis Oregon, as the MLK jr. Volunteer Commissioner for the City Holiday planning the activities, partnerships, and campaigns for a Nonviolence agenda for Corvallis Oregon. One of our campaigns include the safe zone stickers that were used to let residents know which place of business allowed diversity to be celebrated and valued. This gave a great breakthrough for the transition for Corvallis to commit to Equality through values of biodiversity. The complaints arose after competition shifted to businesses with diverse platforms. It became discrimination against businesses that did not value diversity. The campaign had shifted to honor the concept of equality, the stickers were removed. Professionals found new ways to express safe zones to their customers as a place of business that practiced Equality or valued Equality silently. 
My second campaign was operating and being in charge of the education program for the MLK jr. teaching tolerance. During those times that was phase one work in transforming a hostile environment into a more socially healthy environment of diversity enrich values. This caused some to show resistance in the school system to teach tolerance for Equality. The opportunity to dismiss the campaign proved to be a challenge, but few schools participated in the educational program and competition. A private school system won the award. It became clear that Corvallis was not ready for change at that time. Corvallis picked up my strategy for diversity celebration in how they developed and planned activities. This was my first success story as commissioner for the MLK agenda. I learned quickly that the challenge was how to motivate and assess needs from all communities, not just a few.
Today, looking back over my body of work in 26 years of local, national, and global volunteer work in grassroots, government, and organizing with organizations, private, public, government, and nongovernmental; my life experience paved the way to my platform, The Good Stewardship Management System. Building on the interdisciplinary ideologies of social construction, constructivism identity and global health, wellness, and fitness lifestyle (s) and business science integrating communications, mathematics, for Artificial intelligence, technologies, and Modernization; I realize now more than ever organizing and management socially becomes the next phase for human development and implementation of healthy decision making, effective, efficient, and win/win processes systematically. An egalitarian system cannot be born without equality mathematics or social advancements or social maturity of humanitarianism and reparations for all levels of constructivism in vulnerable populations, communities, and groups or ecosystems. This is a holistic approach to Environmental justice and Restorative Justice providing that criminal justice and the Justice department can afford the luxury of Adaptative Management within its systems.
My past work experience can be identified based on my work locally in Corvallis Oregon, nationally with National Women Organization for Women as a PAC foundation, and globally as civil society as a Change Agent and agency in my scholarly Practitioner distribution of intellectual properties and global information distribution. Writing over 5,000 letters to government officials, government agencies, educational institutions, businesses, and professionals over 26 years speaking to their consciousness and building their consciousness for the values of biodiversity and co-existence; I am thankful I am an Oregonian. And now, presenting my case to be elected as Governor in my platform. Our platform. Our potential future. 
Let us become excellent together Oregon,
Dr. Coach Kay, Keisha Lanell Merchant for Governor of Oregon