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Early influences included her Quaker grandmother, anti-war activist Aunt Ruth and her Japanese-American and Jewish classmates at Penngrove Elementary School. As a freshman at San Francisco State College she encountered radical professors and student, but it was Martin Luther King Jr's call for students to come South after the attack on voting rights marches in Selma, known as Bloody Sunday, that she felt moved to action. Maria Gitin has continued to fight for racial justice and to register voters in diverse communities for more than four decades. For twenty-eight years, she was principal of Maria Gitin & Associates development consulting group. She is a frequent presenter on cultural competency and voting rights. Gitin served on the Peter F. Drucker Foundation national training team, as coach for CompassPoint's Fundraising Academy for Communities of Color, led training for the WK Kellogg and Tides foundations, and has presented at numerous national conferences including the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Among other projects, she founded a shelter for survivors of domestic violence and a public library foundation. Maria Gitin is a current member of Bay Area Civil Rights Veterans (www.crmvet.org), Temple Beth El, and the NAACP. She holds a B.A., from Antioch University (1979) and did undergrad work at San Francisco State College (1964-1967). 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