Spike Dolomite was born during the turbulent sixties, before the assassinations of JFK, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and Bobby Kennedy. Her early childhood was spent in northern California during the Vietnam War. The latter part of her childhood was spent in Colorado during the 70s. She comes from a family of self-destructive artists, musicians and educators. She came of age right after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land. Too young for Woodstock and too old for Sesame Street, Spike has always been about 10 years ahead of her time. She remembers the Moon Landing and has never questioned that it actually happened which makes her a 21st Century Democrat.
She moved to Los Angeles in her mid-twenties to seek fame and fortune as an artist. She found a fair amount of fame, but no fortune. After becoming a mother she became a defender of social justice by advocating for public education and fighting for the arts in public schools in the San Fernando Valley, a huge suburb of Los Angeles. She started her own arts education nonprofit in 1999 and ran it until the economy crashed in 2011 at the same time she found herself with late-stage breast cancer while temporarily uninsured. After she became famous overnight for writing an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about the Affordable Care Act literally saving her life, she became the poster child for Obamacare and then a lay expert on health care reform after she pledged to learn all she could about the ACA and help spread the word out of gratitude.
She has been active in local politics and public education, is a grant writer, blogger (her Daily Crime Report about the crimes and misdeeds of Trump and the Republicans can be found on Medium), and has had several op-eds and magazine articles published. She is also a painter and cartoonist.
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