joan

On most Saturdays I am a tour guide for the Los Angeles based company Esotouric. Esotouric offers off-beat bus tours covering everything from the various uses (and abuses) of public space in Los Angeles, to writers such as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain. Whenever I can I volunteer as a docent for the “Los Angeles Conservancy”: giving tours of Union Station. I’ve written and given walking tours of downtown Los Angeles for private groups such as the Getty, and the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

I delivered a lecture at the Queen Mary Art Deco Festival in 2006 entitled, “Deco on the Dressing Table”. On February 20, 2010, I gave a lecture at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood entitled “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: How the ‘Bob’ Changed History”. The lecture was co-hosted by Art Deco Society of Los Angeles, and American Cinematheque.

I am currently involved in organizing the archives of Police Daily Bulletins at the Los Angeles Police Historical Society.

I am a board member for Photo Friends, which is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the Photo Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. I’m also on the board of the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.