For years, Paul da
Silva, a biology teacher at the College of Marin and a member
of United Professors
of Marin, Local 1610, wondered about the lack of teachers on
the college’s Board of Trustees and tried to talk retiring
professors into running. No one took him up on it.
So when he decided in the summer of 2019 that he would retire, he
concluded, to paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi, he’d have to be the
candidate he wished to see in the world.