Wendy Lucas

ytt Nonprofit Vice President

Wendy Lucas, a retired physical therapist, obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from Cal State University Long Beach in Physical Therapy. For many years she worked in neuro-medicine, primarily with folks having sustained spinal cord injuries, strokes, and head injuries. She then earned a Masters in Public Health degree from UC Berkeley, with an emphasis in Maternal and Child Health. She specialized in working with pregnant women, developing and teaching a series of 5 educational classes. Her approach was innovative in the early 1980’s, a time when even exercise was controversial for a pregnant woman.

When her daughters were in high school, she helped create a cooperative community-based fight, not lawsuit-based, utilizing Title IX, and successfully reestablished 9th grade girls soccer as well as initiating girls golf at SLOHS and Morro Bay HS. She volunteered at the California Men’s Colony for 3 years as the Choir Director for Inmate Memorial Singers within the Hospice Program, and kept the program running after the founding director retired. She has also edited two published books, one which has a served as a memoir for a Cal Poly professor who was grew up in the Ukraine during the Ukrainian Holocaust. She has worked in many mediums of art, but in recent years focuses on painting in watercolor.

Wendy has a wonderful supportive husband of 34 years, two daughters, two sons and three grandchildren. She is a life-long singer, participating in choral groups most of her life, as well as being on the Board of Directors of The Central Coast Children’s Choir for 10 years. Fun fact- when she turned 60, she started singing in a rock band and continues to this day.

She currently serves as Vice-President of the Tribal Non Profit, as well as on the Land Back Committee, "holding deep commitment and responsibility towards the return of our ancestral homelands, Diablo Canyon Lands, to Tribal stewardship."