EPISODE · Feb 11, 2019 · 11 MIN
48: Cal alumni leader gives hope to students who need it most
from Berkeley Voices
For Black History Month, we are resharing Fiat Vox episode #23, first published in 2018, about Clothilde Hewlett, the executive director of the Cal Alumni Association:Some people move to San Francisco for its jobs. Or its nightlife. Or its natural beauty.But Clothilde Hewlett moved for Rice-A-Roni. Hewlett was 14 years old waiting at the Canadian border with her mom and two younger sisters. They’d been there for two weeks, but things weren’t looking promising. “And at one point, my mother, out of despair, looked at me and she said, ‘Where do you wanna go?’ says Hewlett. “And all I could think of is I had a seen a commercial called Rice-A-Roni and it didn’t look like people in San Francisco were suffering. So I said, ‘San Francisco.'”Listen to Hewlett’s story — how she pulled herself out of poverty, found salvation as a student at UC Berkeley, climbed the ranks in the government and corporate America and returned to the campus, where she giving back to students who need it most.Read the story and see photos on UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/12/fiat-vox-podcast-clothilde-hewlett/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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For Black History Month, we are resharing Fiat Vox episode #23, first published in 2018, about Clothilde Hewlett, the executive director of the Cal Alumni Association:Some people move to San Francisco for its jobs. Or its nightlife. Or its natural beauty.But Clothilde Hewlett moved for Rice-A-Roni. Hewlett was 14 years old waiting at the Canadian border with her mom and two younger sisters. They’d been there for two weeks, but things weren’t looking promising. “And at one point, my mother, out of despair, looked at me and she said, ‘Where do you wanna go?’ says Hewlett. “And all I could think of is I had a seen a commercial called Rice-A-Roni and it didn’t look like people in San Francisco were suffering. So I said, ‘San Francisco.'”Listen to Hewlett’s story — how she pulled herself out of poverty, found salvation as a student at UC Berkeley, climbed the ranks in the government and corporate America and returned to the campus, where she giving back to students who need it most.Read the story and see photos on UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/12/fiat-vox-podcast-clothilde-hewlett/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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