Mary (Brighton) Borrelli

I graduated from Cal Berkeley, became a partner in Chez Panisse restaurant in the 70's (this helped me pay my Cal expenses), married Jim Borrelli who used to teach at Clayton Valley. He then went on to teach and become principal at St. Mary's College High School in Berkeley. We have been divorced for a while now.

I sold my second business (from Chez Pannise I went on to open Borrelli's Delicatessen in Berkeley's gourmet ghetto) in 1985 to pursue an opportunity in documentary film. I was the associate producer for a feature film called 'Berkeley In The Sixties'. We won a Golden Globe, a Columbia Dupont Broadcasting award, and an Oscar nomination in 1990. The film is still in circulation around the world. From there I went on to become a field producer for KRON TV, then the NBC affiliate in San Francisco.

I spent most of my time on the streets of San Francisco covering news, including the Loma Prieta earthquake and the Oakland firestorm. I also was part of the documentary unit and won an Emmy award for a documentary called 'The Port Chicago Mutiny', the story of the WWII explosion at what is now the Concord Naval Weapons Station.

From KRON I moved on to Kaiser Permanente where I managed communications for physicians and the executives in the high-tech division of Kaiser. I left Kaiser in May of 2003, sold my home and moved to Tucson, where I built a home and now do marketing and communications. I am healthy and happy and busy creating my next adventure. The southwest is a great place to live - full of history, art, enterpise - and very affordable.