Welcome to Kathy Seal's Website and Blog

Kathy Shenkin Seal was born in Philadelphia and attended Lower Merion High School (many years before Kobe Bryant, but some time after Alexander Haig.) Kathy went to Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude with a major in classics and comparative literature. She now lives in Santa Monica and works as a journalist, author, and editor.
Kathy is also writing a memoir that begins with the building takeovers at Columbia University in 1968 and ends with her ten-year stint as an assembler at the General Motors Assembly Division in South Gate, Ca. In her spare time she works with the Sierra Club to slow down global warming and with Friends4Expo, a community group advocating for the light rail line now under construction from downtown L.A. to Santa Monica.
Kathy has two sons. Zach is an urban planner living in Oakland. Jeff, a graduate of San Francisco's Clown Conservatory, performs physical theater in New York City. Her husband Jim is a transportation consultant and an all-around nice guy. He has a 1941 Cadillac coupe, its color a beautiful teal.