Judith was a co-founder of Bay Area Action and a supporter through all the years. She was married to fellow BAA co-founder Abhay Bhushan.

As BAA’s volunteer coordinator in the early 1990s in the 504 Emerson offices, Judith helped coordinate and train new volunteers as BAA continued to grow, especially in the wake of yearly Earth Day events. She contributed other invaluable skills — a “BAA Notables” blurb in the Mar-Apr 1993 Action described her as a “superhuman earthmom to us all.”

In January 1992 the BAA Council began a trial of reaching decisions by consensus rather than by majority vote. Judith helped educate the council members on the consensus model and process during the ensuing three month trial. The council operated by consensus thereafter.

Early in 1992 Judith and Sue Nicholls planned the BAA Council's annual retreat, where members discussed the year’s plan, finances, team building, non-violence training, and more. Judith continued to coordinate the retreats in 1993 and 1994.

In 1992 she helped coordinate BAA’s part in The Hundredth Monkey. She coordinated a benefit dinner on February 15, 1992, featuring a gourmet spread of delectables prepared by volunteers Laura Stec, David Smernoff, David Coale, Mary Welz, and Chuck Peterson.

In May 1992 Judith coordinated a BAA table at retail store Pacific Mountaineer, which donated 5% of the sale day’s gross to BAA (final amount TBD but 05-07-1992 Council minutes indicate past events had garnered ~$2,000).

In late 1992 Judith and other BAA Council members formed a committee to explore whether BAA should have an advisory board to help with fundraising, strategic planning, endorsements and other tasks. She also served on the Nominating Committee, which sought to bolster the BAA Council with new members from outside the group.

Judith and others coordinated BAA Schools Group and Earth Day 1994 volunteers who stenciled storm drains with the message “No Dumping, Flows to San Francisquito.”

Judith conducted an interview with Hugh DeWitt, a staff physicist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, published in the March–April 1995 edition of Action, titled “Nuclear Conversion at Lawrence Livermore.”

For BikeWeek in 1995, Judith led a tour of the Palo Alto Baylands with a stop at the Peninsula Conservation Center for afternoon tea.

She helped with fundraising in 1995 by enrolling BAA as a Palo Alto Co-op member so if members shopped there and used BAA’s number, the organization would receive a year-end dividend. She also helped sell potted evergreens during the semi-annual Living Christmas Tree Sale.

She goes by Cybele LoVuolo-Bhushan now.

Bay Area Action Council*

1992

1993

1995

Donations to BAA, 1990–2000*

• Judith was one of the first three people to become BAA Preserving Members in April 1990, pledging support of $50 monthly.
• 1996 — $100-499 level
• 1997 — $101–149 level

* Records may be incomplete. The BAA Archives are still being collated and researched.

Donations to BAA History Project

• 2025 — $300 (with Abhay Bhushan)

Post BAA

In the early 2000s Judith was a charter member of the Acterra Alumni Association, which sought to keep past board members of BAA and the PCCF engaged and apprised of continued progress of the newly merged organization.

She was also involved with Seventh Harvest Research Institute, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and served as Business Manager for the East Palo Alto Historical and Agricultural Society, Library Assistant for Kaplan Education Centers, ESL Teacher for Silicon Valley Language Institute, and longtime Secretary to the Board of Directors of the ACLU Midpeninsula.

Cybele’s legacy is one of local activism and civic engagement in support of equity, justice, and community-building. She is listed as a donor to education and housing organizations such as East Palo Alto Kids Foundation and LifeMoves and is recognized in the annual reports of groups such as Rebuilding Together Peninsula.

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