Irvine Unified Education Board candidate Debra Kamm is a longtime education and health advocate and a champion of informed consent for parents.
When her son was born with a rare heart condition, the mother of two—who has one child in the district—co-founded California Heart Connection, a nonprofit that provides support for parents whose children have such conditions.
Through her nonprofit, Kamm said she became a strong supporter of informed consent for parents, conducted nationwide research on miscommunications between physicians and parents, and authored articles for medical research journals and textbooks.
Debra Kamm, Irvine Unified School District Area 2 candidate in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 21, 2022. (Sophie Li/The Epoch Times)
“I’ve advocated for parents and kids for the last 20 years—so to me, this is really the same thing, just rather than in the medical community, it’s in education,” Kamm told The Epoch Times….