Welcome to my official website. In 2008, I termed out of the California state legislature after eight years in the Senate and six years in the Assembly. Throughout 2009, I was a member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board. In 2010, I began a new project, Kuehl Consulting, and was pleased to be asked to serve as the Founding Director of the Public Policy Institute at Santa Monica College, as well as producer and host of eight Legacy television shows detailing the history of the city of West Hollywood, and co-author of "Safe At School", a policy white paper addressing how to keep schools safe for LGBT youth, produced for the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School. In 2010 and 2011, former Assemblymember Patty Berg and I co-facilitated a new Institute For Elected Women: California, bringing together over fifty former women Senators and Assemblymembers to conduct trainings for women newly elected to the State Legislature. In 2011, we began to offer the model to a number of other states. Also in 2011, I continued my tenure as Director of the Public Policy Institute at Santa Monica College, where we established the only AA in Public Policy awarded at a California community college, and where we presented six new community programs on current issues in public policy. I also continued as the host of "Get Used To It", a national cable show, originating in West Hollywood, on LGBT issues and people. I began work with Planned Parenthood of California, helping to develop legislation expanding access to early, non-surgical abortions in California, and continued working with the Williams Institute at the UCLA Law School, helping to draft model state codes on marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. In 2012, I continue my work with the Public Policy Institute at SMC, Planned Parenthood, the Williams Institute and Get Used To It, continuing, as well, to speak at meetings and conferences. For more details, hit the "Kuehl Consulting" button, at left. I am also very pleased and honored to report that I have been appointed to serve as a 2012 Regents' Professor at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, and will be teaching a class there in the spring semester of 2012.
This site is intended to help you learn about me--my past, present and future.
It is also a place to read current essays, learn how to subscribe to my essays, if you wish, and contact me. Best not to use the "email Sheila" button at left, but rather to send an email to kuehl.website@gmail.com.
It has long been my intention and my privilege to spend my life in public service. My bio shows a good deal about how I went about that, but there is still much to do. I hope that you will enjoy the website. Thanks for visiting.
Most recent essays: 2012 Budget Essay #1: This Ain't Roy Rogers' Trigger Two Triggers: One Stuffed, One Deflated by Sheila Kuehl January 6, 2012 Since Governor Brown's staff mistakenly posted his proposed budget on his website, rather than keeping it under wraps till Tuesday, the budget debate season got off to an early, if wobbly, start. Analysis of the budget will take a few days, so I wanted to begin by bringing you up to date on the triggers that were pulled last month in the 2011-12 budget. This essay describes what circumstances forced the first trigger to be pulled, how the second trigger was not fully set into motion, and who lost what. Read more >> Read archived essays. |
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