Cori Schumacher is a three-time Women's World Longboard Champion, earning the title in 2000,2001 and 2010.
16 Facts About Cori Schumacher
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Cori Schumacher's parents were avid surfers, with her mother having professionally competed in the sport.
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The family moved to San Diego, where Schumacher learned the practice.
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Cori Schumacher has won multiple national and international surfing titles being best known for women's longboarding.
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Cori Schumacher turned to longboarding and became a three-time Women's World Longboard Champion, earning the title in 2000,2001 and 2010.
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From late 2001 to 2008, Cori Schumacher went on sabbatical from competition and came out as gay.
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Cori Schumacher returned in 2008 to win the Linda Benson Roxy Jam at Cardiff, California, the Women's Longboard Pipeline Pro Champion in 2009, and two-time Association of Surfing Professionals North American Champion winning in 2008 and 2009.
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In 2017, Cori Schumacher published a chapter in the Critical Surf Studies Reader, a seminal anthology introducing the emerging academic field of critical surf studies.
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Cori Schumacher's research focused on the gender pay gap, misogyny, and homophobia within the world of professional surfing.
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In 2019, Cori Schumacher worked with California Assembly member Tasha Boerner-Horvath on Assembly Bill 467, California's "Equal Pay for Equal Play" legislation which emerged from conversations between the two.
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From 2016 to 2021 Cori Schumacher, a Democrat, was an elected city council member for Carlsbad, California.
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In 2016, Cori Schumacher was elected to as an at-large council member having received support for opposing a contentious mall development plan.
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Cori Schumacher was the first LGBTQ+ elected official in Carlsbad's history.
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Cori Schumacher announced her campaign for mayor of Carlsbad in 2018 with a platform centered on creating a community choice energy program.
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Cori Schumacher initiated a special meeting in January 2021 where she proposed stricter enforcement for restaurants not following California COVID restrictions on indoor dining which failed.
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In June 2023, Cori Schumacher became the political director for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 569.