November is going to be one heck of a month. I can’t even believe it’s less than a week away till Halloween is over, and the presidential election is over. And before we know it, Christmas and New Years will be upon us and a brand we’ll usher in a brand new 2009. Here’s what’s […]
The 60’s and 70’s were all about the protests and activism. It’s hard not to think of hippies and sit-ins at UC Berkeley’s campus when you think of that era.
Our generation has been faced with redefining our own form of activism, and I think we have found it largely by giving back to our communities. […]
I’ve been thinking about culture incessantly as I have been getting situated in my new role as the site director at the BUILD Peninsula site.
The timing could not have been more appropriate. Over the last three years I’ve spent my summers designing and executing summer business boot camps for our sophomores and juniors with the […]
This summer I’m transitioning into the site director role at BUILD after three years of proudly serving as the incubator manager. Yes, I’ve known for a while, and we have been making announcements here and there in the BUILD community (during our after-school incubator sessions and a big announcement during the Business Plan Competition back […]
I’m really looking forward to a crazy, fun, and travel-filled summer filled with multiple trips to the South, a quick visit to NYC, and a full-circle trip to USC to facilitate a workshop with Karla at our alma mater. I signed up for this new Twitter-like social-networking site called Dopplr, which touts itself as an […]
Dear Friends,
Hi, how are you? Oh, you’re doing well? That’s great. Me? Oh, busy as usual. You know, work, singing, traveling, eating, etc. Thanks for asking. Oh, you haven’t seen me in a while? Yea, I know. Apologies! May’s going to be a really event-packed month for me, too, so we’ll just […]
Spring time… flowers blossom, babies take their first breaths, and… BUILD goes on college tours. I’ll be in Los Angeles this week taking 35 of my kids on a tour of 7 different college campuses, including my alma mater, USC!
More when I get back…
Karla and I have been racking our brains trying to figure out why the social sector is home to some of the least diversely populated organizations, and, subsequently, what can we do about it? So we have been doing our research to first find out how diversity improves the workforce (in business, government and the […]
Thursday night at BUILD’s Youth Business Incubator felt like a little snapshot of life at our little growing operation. It felt all at once like a blur. Like it could have all passed by if you shut your eyes for a moment. It went by fast, like a cyclone, and I still can’t believe that […]
Almost a year ago today, I thought of writing a post with this title because I was driving to work with Karla and had an epiphany. It wasn’t a big huge crazy epiphany.
It was more like a puzzle all falling into place, and all of the pieces were gathered throughout time.
Anyway, the epiphany was that […]
My work Outlook inbox is at zero… no emails… completely empty!
Woo hoo!!!
Do you ever feel like you’re racing against the clock to get to bed?
Those are my usual Monday nights. After I get back from chorus rehearsal at about 10 to 10:30 pm, I get home, have dinner of some sort, while simultaneously checking my email. Sometimes I chat with people online, sometimes I chat with […]
Ever since my car accident in 2002, my life’s goal has been pretty clear: to serve and better the lives of children and youth.
This has been kind of hard to explain to other people when they ask me, “Why? Why don’t you just work in the private sector now, make lots of money, and then […]
Apparently Saturn is moving into Virgo for the next couple of years. According to Alex, my resident astrologer/spiritual advisor, this means that people in general will be more nitpicky about things in their lives.
The following quotes were taken from www.astrologicallyspeaking.com:
Saturn is the planet of concentrated effort—no short cuts—and he will now be spending time in […]
[Photo taken at the Flickr / Yahoo exhibit]
I don’t remember how I found about the Maker Faire, but for some reason it had been on my calendar for weeks, maybe even months, to go to the twice yearly fair–they hold one in San Mateo and another in Texas.
Coincidentally, my brother was in town visiting our […]
BUILD’s tagline is “Excel. Lead. Succeed.” but tonight it was more like “Excel. Cry. Dance.
Today was BUILD’s End of the Year Celebration. We first took the freshmen on an all-day field trip to see two colleges: San Jose State and Menlo College (from 9 am to 4:30 pm).
And then in the evening, all of the […]
