Karen

"there's something new to do all the time. And and that's one of the things I like about it."

"Communicating skills, organizational skills...being mission-aligned is a non-negotiable"

"At the end of the day, I feel like I'm making a difference."

"I wish I had more time in every day or more people on my team."

"The collaborative nature of fundraisers and communication people all throughout Oakland, especially in the education sector. We all talk to each other. We're always sharing best practices"

"People who thrive are very Mission aligned, feel good about their work, have basic skills, and are willing to innovate and learn new things."

"fundraising and Communications for a nonprofits is incredibly rewarding and and can be a super viable career path."

"there's associate level jobs that you can enter right out of undergrad"

"If I had approached networking as relationship building, I would have approached things differently."

"I did not think that I was going to be using my journalism degree, but turns out that I actually do quite a bit."

"We refused to portray students as poor and hungry, instead focusing on their potential as poets, artists, mathematicians..."