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LifeRing Speaker:
Martin Nicolaus (Marty N.)
Marty's sobriety date is October 2,
1992. On that day he enlisted as an outpatient in the
Kaiser Permanente Chemical Dependency Recovery Program in
Oakland, CA, and soon began attending the secular recovery
support meetings that are known today as LifeRing. In 1996
he founded the
www.unhooked.com website and a year later founded LifeRing
Press and LifeRing Inc. In 1999 he was one of the founding
members of LifeRing Secular Recovery and he participated in the
group's national constitutional congress in 2001.
Marty's recovery publications
include:
He is an elected member of the
LifeRing Board of Directors and is the current LifeRing CEO.
He has started a number of LifeRing meetings in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He currently leads a workbook study
group in Oakland and a Sunday night online chat meeting.
He is an active volunteer at the LifeRing Service Center in
Oakland. He is a frequent presenter about LifeRing at treatment programs
and in college classrooms.
Marty received a B.A. in
comparative literature from Wesleyan University, an M.A. in
Sociology from Brandeis University, and the J.D. from Boalt Hall
School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Marty's day job is as an attorney
in solo practice, handling intellectual property and real
property cases in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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