Editing Shirley Dean (section)

==Recent Community Involvement==
Since leaving the Mayor’s Office in 2002, Dean has been involved in several community and environmental organizations, serving on the boards of:

* Save Strawberry Canyon, an organization working to preserve the watershed and woodlands of Strawberry Canyon from proposed construction by [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-04-15/article/29755?headline=Wild-Neighbors-Strawberry-Canyon-and-UC-s-Edifice-Complex |title=Wild Neighbors: Strawberry Canyon and UC's Edifice Complex |publisher=Berkeleydailyplanet.com |access-date=2012-05-12}}</ref>
* A Better Way, an East Bay social service and mental health agency that serves children and their families.
* Citizens for East Shore Parks (CESP),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastshorepark.org/board.php |title=Citizens for East Shore Parks Board of Directors |publisher=Eastshorepark.org |access-date=2012-05-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216051434/http://www.eastshorepark.org/board.php |archive-date=2012-02-16 }}</ref> working to extend the waterfront park through Point Molate in [[Richmond, California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastshorepark.org/eastshore_state_park.php |title=CESP works with park agencies to forge an affordable Brickyard Plan |publisher=Eastshorepark.org |access-date=2012-05-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216051437/http://www.eastshorepark.org/eastshore_state_park.php |archive-date=2012-02-16 }}</ref>

In 2003, Dean was named Woman of the year by the Zonta Club of Berkeley/North Bay.
In 2009, Dean appeared in the documentary film ''[[Power Trip: Theatrically Berkeley]]'' about the controversial [[greening]] of Berkeley after the passage of Berkeley Proposition G.
Dean made headlines in 2007 when she, at age 71, city council member Betty Olds, 86, and noted environmentalist and co-founder of Save the Bay,  Sylvia McLaughlin, 90, climbed a ladder to briefly join a tree-sit aimed at saving the Memorial Oak Grove outside the stadium of the University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/us/23tree.html| title = A Dose of Maturity for a California Protest| website = [[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2007-01-23/article/26151?headline=Dean-Olds-McLaughlin-Join-Campus-Tree-Protest |title=Dean, Olds, McLaughlin Join Campus Tree Protest |publisher=Berkeleydailyplanet.com |access-date=2012-05-12}}</ref> After a 21-month protest, the oak trees were cut down.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/09/MNMD12QPGR.DTL |title=Berkeley tree-sitters finally down to earth |publisher=Sfgate.com |date=2008-09-10 |access-date=2012-05-12 |first=Carolyn |last=Jones}}</ref>