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8 Carole Berotte Joseph Mass Bay Community College

10 Tito Guerrero Cambridge College

12 Jackie Jenkins Scott Wheelock College

6 BusinessMaking the Most of the Internship ExperienceFor Employers and Interns

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dear readers,Although I am still in the midst of enjoying the summer, I am already gearing up for my two boys, who are in 1st and 2nd grade, to return back to school. I foresee trekking to Staples for school supplies and to T.J.Maxx and Marshalls for their school clothes. Their return to school reminds me of my commit-ment to teaching them a love of learning. Education is the best gift you can give your children and yourself.

Lately, I have been contemplating what skills I still need to develop as I continue to build my business and grow personally. I asked myself what is the best use of my time, and assess when and what courses and experi-ences would be most valuable.

I decided to make a list of things that I have

never done before and have always wanted to do. All nine items currently on my list are directly or indirectly related to learning something new. This love of learning has been ingrained in me for as long as I can remember and it is one I wish to pass on to my kids.

If you are thinking about your graduate or advanced degrees, pursue them now – even if you can only take one class at a time. I also suggest creating your own list of things you want to accomplish. Boston has so many great schools and the city has so much to offer as a whole, it is the perfect place to continue your lifelong journey of learning.

Enjoy the summer and maybe I will see you in one of my classes.

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Lisa strack is the senior manager of di-versity and inclusion for the Greater Boston region of Comcast. in her role, she is an internal consultant to the business in the development of lead-ership recruitment strategies that yield a diverse pipeline of best-in-class talent from interns to man-agement prospects.

ada Gonzalez is a Jungian Analyst in training at the C.G. Jung institute. the focus of her work is on cross-cultural issues and psychological trauma for individu-als, couples and fami-lies. she has a private practice in Cambridge, massachusetts.

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, is a noted green columnist and the host of Farmers Almanac tV. Her popular online video show, Garden Girl tV, focuses on sustain-able urban living. Patti also has an award-winning green product line and lives with her family in Boston on her “urban farmette.”

Keiko s. Broom-head is the Vice President of Enroll-ment management and student Affairs at Wentworth institute of technology. she is also a senior Consultant with stevens strategy. she holds a B.A. from oberlin College, an Ed.m. from Harvard University and is currently pursuing an Ed.d. from northeast-ern University.


The Frost family experience draws attention to the need to view education as a broad multi-dimensional learning experience that partners diverse educational pursuits with existing traditional learning models.

How can we educate ourselves, our families, our communities and the nation’s workforce for our fast changing, increasingly technical, complex, diverse, and global world? What will be the requisite skills needed to thrive and be successful?

The U.S. Census Bureau (2008) is projecting that by 2050 the nation will be older and more diverse.

> By 2042, minorities who account for approximately one-third of the U.S. population will become the majority (54%).

> By 2050 those in the U.S. age group of 65 years old and greater will increase to 88.5 million which more than twice the number in 2008 (38.7 million).

In 2050, the nation’s population of children is projected to be 62 per-cent minority, up from 44 percent today.

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Maya Frost is the author of, “the New global student, skip the sAt, save thousands on tuition and get a truly International Experience.” In 2005, Frost and her husband left their suburban life in Oregon and moved their four teenage daughters to Mexico and then later to Argentina. the Frost daughters’ flexible and non-traditional education model included in-

ternational exchange programs, online classes and dual enrollment in both high school and college.

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> Be practical and strategic: If you are choosing a new foreign language to learn, you may want to put Spanish or Mandarin Chinese at the top of your list.

> Choose approaches that best fit your situation and learning style. You could self-direct your study by reading, attending events and lectures. If you have more time and money to invest, you may consider hiring a private tutor.

> Be flexible: Education does not always just mean learning conven-tional skills or subjects. Education can include gaining skills in areas such as life and career, critical thinking, problem solving and com-munication.

The Pew Research Center (2008) reported that the number of foreign born workers will increase to 23% by 2050 from 15% in 2005.

U.S. policy makers, business leaders and educators are voicing concerns that the nation’s inability to educate an adequate quantity of domestic workers with high-quality science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills will impede its ability to be competitive and prosperous in an increasingly global and technological economy. Within this general alarm is the growing concern that the U.S. is also not supporting and producing a broad and diverse pool of scientists and engineers necessary to provide in-novation for the future global client needs and purposes.

When you think about educa-tional opportunities, think innova-tively and about the needs of the diverse and global world we are in. If you want to learn a skill or gain knowledge, before relying on tradi-tional delivery formats like a class or a training course, do some research on the variety of creative and perhaps more effective ways you may gain these skills.


One of my favorite things about my job is overseeing all of the Emma Bowen Founda-tion interns in the Greater Boston Region. Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of

seeing them in action and watching them grow as individuals. After managing and coordinating our internship program at Comcast and determining what works best for our company, here is some basic advice for employers that will help ensure your that interns have a positive experience – after all, your interns could be your future customers, or your future employees!

BY LISa STraCK

Internships have become an indispensible tool for both employ-ers and college students. this article aims to provide practical advice for employers looking to develop an internship program and for aspiring interns seeking out the best possible workplace experience.

> Seek interns in many different plac-es. Employers should leverage career offices at local colleges and universities, post their listings online and ultimately leverage their own interns as recruiters for the “next” intern.

> Prepare for the intern’s arrival. A formal orientation is not necessary, but it is important to plan in advance for the arrival of your intern. A dedicated work-space equipped with everything he or she will need should be ready for them on the morning of their first day. The intern’s supervisor should also create a schedule for him or her that includes introductions to key colleagues that the intern will regular-ly work with and the supervisor should also be prepared on this first day to discuss the department’s expec-tations of the intern.

> Make the intern a part of the team. This can take the form of anything from invit-ing him or her to lunch with other staff

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I’ll start off by sharing how Comcast approaches internships in the Greater Boston area. First, various departments, from engineering to marketing, seek out interns from leading colleges and univer-sities. Second, we leverage partnerships with leading organizations. One of our best relationships is with the Emma Bowen Foundation, which focuses on providing opportunities for students of color who want to work in the telecommunications and entertainment industry. This competi-tive program provides selected interns with

the opportunity to work for the company for the duration of their undergraduate college career. They get to experience the company culture and work directly with senior managers in a variety of departments of their choice. In fact, interns work with their program manager to develop a “wish list” of departments they are interested in rotating through each year. This conversa-tion empowers the intern to influence and manage his or her career; this is not the stereotypical internship experience of get-ting coffee or making copies.

members, to opening up staff meetings and making introductions so the intern can start getting to know their team.

> Establish regular meetings between the supervisor and the intern. This is a time to discuss cur-rent and future proj-ects, set expectations, provide feedback, teach new “on-the-job” skills and help the intern learn not only about your organiza-tion, but also about the world of work in your industry. This type of relationship is critical to providing a valuable internship experience, for both the employer and intern.

> Challenge your intern. When devel-oping projects and assignments for your interns, try to keep themboth interest-ing, meaningful and helpful in terms of the learning that will hap-pen as a result of the work. A good test is to ask yourself if you would enjoy complet-ing the internship as it is designed. The intern is with your

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> Search everywhere. When you’re look-ing for an internship, ask everyone you know and look everywhere. Ask friends and family members who work at large companies about opportunities, visit your college career services office, search on-line and read print publications that focus on the industry you may be interested in.

> ask questions. Once you’re on the job, don’t be afraid to look for opportunities instead of waiting for them. As the saying goes, be ‘bright eyed and bushy tailed.’ Be excited and attentive for anything that comes your way.

> develop your networking skills. Reach out to people in your department and other departments. Offer your help, schedule to eat lunch, ask questions, and proactively seek out mentors.

> Keep in contact with your manager and company throughout the year. Even though the internship may only last a summer, constant contact makes you feel as if you are still part of the company and not just another intern that drops in every once in awhile.

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When Carole Berotte Joseph was inaugurat-ed as president of Mass Bay Community College in 2005, she became the first Haitian-American college president in the country. She has been in higher education for more than 35 years, is fluent in four languages and is a noted expert on education policy and sociolinguistics. Under her leadership, Mass Bay has embraced a global approach to learning – through study abroad programs, international education, and foreign language classes – setting it apart from most community colleges in the commonwealth.

> CM: What was it like moving from Port-au-Prince to Brooklyn when you were 8 years old?CBJ: It was exciting; it was something new. When we first got here my parents kept us very guarded, very protected. We were not going out and playing in the streets even though in those days Brooklyn and Bushwick were really very good neighborhoods. We did go to catholic schools, elementary and high school. Then for college I told my parents, ‘Give us a break!’

Growing up in that time there were very few Haitians in the United States, most of my friends were Hispanic, Puerto Rican and Columbian. I grew up in their homes hearing Spanish, speaking Spanish. I also had Spanish in my family because I have a grandmother of Cuban background. We grew up in a kind of multicultural, multilingual environment.

> CM: as the daughter of a teacher and a nurse, what values did your parents instill in you that helped you in your career?CBJ: They instilled the values of family life, pride in what we did and who we were. They instilled the values of multiculturalism in us, so we had friends from all over. My family, we like to say, is a little United Nations, because we have people from all cultures intermarrying and whatever. I grew up in a very positive family, with respect for all people, respect for serving people. My parents did a lot of volunteer work. They were also very involved in their church in the community. Those kinds of values were important. Hard work, striving for perfection, being proud of yourself, those were things they always drilled in us.

> CM: What did it mean to you when

you became the first haitian-american president of a college in the United States?CBJ: It was kind of the crowing of my career, because I had been in higher education for a long time. But it also meant, as a very active community person, I had to succeed, because I was a role model and a lot of people were look-ing up to me. Personally, it meant that I had to make sure we had a second and a third. I’m happy to say that this year we have another (Haitan-American) who has just been named the president of a college in California.

> CM: Was that personally satisfying, knowing that you led the way for him?CBJ: Absolutely. I met him at a leadership program for aspiring college presidents. He said to me, ‘I hope that one day I can follow your footsteps.’ I said, ‘Of course you can!’

After that leadership program, I told him he needed to start throwing his hat in. I was a pro-fessor for 23 years and then an associate dean. I got most of the jobs I applied for. It wasn’t until another president who was a friend told me, “Carole, if you want to be a president you need to start applying. You’re not just going to get the first one you apply for,” that I realized it’s a little more competitive. I kind of nudged him to start applying, and sure enough, this one came through.

> CM: You are bringing a more global approach to Mass Bay. Why is this important and how are you achieving this?CBJ: I see myself as a citizen of the world. May-be it was because of the way I grew up, I learned not just to tolerate the differences in people, but to really appreciate them. My father was an in-ternational student. He studied in Belgium and the U.S. He knew how tough things were in the U.S. He always told his girls that we needed to

be three times as good because we had the ad-ditional glass ceiling for women. You have to be good because you are foreign born, you have to be good because you’re a women and you are of color. Part of my global approach comes because I have a very multicultural family.

As a leader in a community college we pre-pare a lot of people for the work force. Business and industry are always telling us that they want people who are flexible, who are global. Now with the world being so flat – as (Thomas) Friedman’s book reminds us – we’re so close with technology that people really need to un-derstand what other people are doing, how they live, how they think. I think it just enriches your perspective.

> CM: Can you sense two different barriers, one for being a minority and one for being a woman?CBJ: I can tell the difference. I can tell when people are acting chauvinistic. They go, “She’s a woman and should do this or shouldn’t do that.” When it’s racism, it’s been pretty clear. I had a blog going on about me where they would call me (racial slurs). Another time, I opened the college when there was snow, but not so much that we couldn’t open. Somebody at a meeting said, ‘What kind of a Haitian radio station was she listening to that she decided to open the school today?’ When that got back to me, I really felt sorry for the person. If she had said, ‘What kind of crazy person, or president, opened the school?’ I would have been OK with that. Did she have to bring up that I was Haitian?

My parents gave us very, very good self-concept. So through all this, I knew that I could do the job, that I was as good as anyone else.

And looking back, it’s taken a lot of hard work and guts, but if I were to leave the college today, I would feel great. I have a really good team, and in the five years that we have been here, we have really achieved a lot.

> CM: Who are your favorite authors who write in haitian Creole?CBJ: Well first off, Yves Dejean, who is a lin-guist. Locally we have Marc Prou, a professor at UMass Boston and former student of mine. I spent 23 years teaching at city college in New York, so it’s been wonderful to see so many of my students who really became tops.

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Tito Guerrero’s family lived in Texas long before it was ever Texas, as he puts it, “the border crossed them.” Although his parents had never attended high school, they understood, and taught their children, the importance of education. For Tito – who has four degrees and has headed three colleges, including Stephen F. Austin State University and University of South-ern Colorado – that lesson became his life’s work. This past May, 35 years after graduating from Harvard, he returned to Massachusetts as president of Cambridge College.

> CM: how did education become your passion?> TG: It was something that evolved over time. My mother went to the fourth grade and my dad went to the sixth grade. And they had way more schooling than any of their parents. When I graduated from high school I was the first in my family to go to high school, let alone col-lege. Even though my parents didn’t have much in the way of experience with schooling, they worked really hard, they worked in the fields, they did lots of manual labor. So they were both of the mind that if you wanted to make a better life for yourself you needed a good education. I, and my other four siblings, would always have our report cards examined by our parents, and even though they couldn’t help us with any of the content, they would be very upset if we got anything lower than a B.

Another factor was that my dad served in World War II. He always used to tell me as a kid was, ‘Son, if you’re going to go into the service, you need to go in as an officer.’ I don’t think my dad realized that you needed college to be an officer (laughs). When I was going to high school it was during the war in Vietnam, and the only way, that I recall, to get any kind of a deferment was to go to college. I had assumed that military service was inevitable for me, so I was trying to take my dads advice and become an officer.

The other thing was that we had a phe-nomenal football coach, who had played under Paul “Bear” Bryant, when I was in high school. Right before I graduated I became aware that he would be an assistant coach at Texas A & M. So I wrote him a letter and asked him if I could be a team manager, and he wrote back saying I got a job.

It was all of those things coming together,

it’s not like I knew all along that I was going to go to college. Frankly, even as an undergraduate I don’t think I would ever have thought that my life would take the direction it has taken. I wish I could say that I knew early on exactly what I wanted to do, but that would be dishonest. A lot of it was like being in a pinball machine, fortunately I had some good luck and hit some good spots along the way.

> CM: You eventually came back to Texas a & M as vice president and associate provost for diversity. What did you hope to change when you came back?> TG: There were a couple of things. When I went to A & M as an undergraduate, it was an all male school. The president at the time, Earl Rudder, made the decision to admit woman in the university. The effect was dramatic almost right away. The university was transformed almost magically.

The other thing is, when I was a student, it was during the time the color barrier was being broken in the southwest conference. At the time, I was a manager for the football team, we had two African American students come out for the team, Sammy Williams and J.T. Reynolds. When I was there, the college was morphing into something better, something stronger, something more vibrant.

The other thing was the man who invited me to come to Texas A & M, Bob Gates, who is now the secretary of defense, were presidents together at different institutions. He extended to me the opportunity and I jumped on it for a few reasons. I had very high regard for Bob

Gates; it was an opportunity to return to my alma mater; and because of that historical experience – observing a great institution becoming even greater by becoming more diverse and morphing into more contemporary ways – I thought I might be able to help out in that regard.

> CM: What opportunities did you see in an adult education college?> TG: When the opportunity for Cambridge College developed, I became familiar with the mission of Cambridge College. It’s something that resonates with me. I think it appealed to my own mindset and my own life experiences. Many of the students we serve are people like me.

When I was growing up in the elementary grades, I remember seeing these boys with these blue shirts, yellow bandanas, and I thought they looked real cool. I remember asking my mother about them, and she found out that if you were Mexican or you were black you couldn’t be a boy scout. There was a swimming pool in my hometown; its membership charter said that only folks of Anglo decent could be part of the club. Some of the teachers in the school were den mothers, some of them officers at the swimming pool. You almost have to wonder aloud, how lofty do you think their aspirations for the students who came from minority com-munities might have been? In many ways, I was very fortunate because I did come into contact with some teachers who saw some promise and potential in me.

Back in those days when I was in school, it was very common for children of Hispanic decent to be placed in grade zero. They believed you wouldn’t have the command of the English language to be able to handle the demands of the first grade curriculum. My mom – and I don’t know how she did this – taught every one of us how to read before we ever got to first grade. She didn’t allow the school to place me in grade zero. So I was one of the very fortunate Mexican Americans in my time and place to not have to start in grade zero.

The other thing was when I finished my doctorate at Harvard, and took my very first job in higher education. I was teaching students at the master’s level, most of them were older than I. Most of them were working adults, paying

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By any standard Jackie Jenkins-Scott’s re-sume is impressive. She served as the executive director of the Roxbury Court Clinic, worked on Michael Dukakis’s first campaign for gov-ernor and joined The Dimock Center when it was on the verge of closing, revitalizing the historic community health organization dur-ing her 21 years as president. But without any work in higher education she seemed an unlikely choice to become the 13th president of Wheelock College, a position she has now held for five years. Perhaps the key to her successful transition lies in the college’s simple mission statement – to improve the lives of children and families – something she has been doing her whole career.

> CM: When you joined The dimock Center you were taking on an organization that had been a fixture in roxbury for years and was on the brink of closing. What drew you to that position?JJ: A friend called me and basically said ‘Look, there’s this center and it’s having a lot of prob-lems. They claim they can’t find a person of color to interview for the job.’ She kept asking, and after about three times, I said, OK, I’ll inter-view. The first interview was downtown at the Hancock Tower on the 36th floor or something, and I was interested. But then I went to visit the campus and just felt very connected to it. It was a remarkable experience because the buildings were all run down, the campus was in very poor condition. But I just loved the people that I met, I just felt very connected to the spirit of its mission and its founders.

At the time the Health Center was in a form of bankruptcy, called a receivership. I just felt like this place couldn’t close; it’s been here for all these years. When they had the place ap-praised, the appraiser basically said we should tear down the buildings and salt the land and one day it’s going to come back. I was like pissed (laughs), I thought, ‘We cant do this!’

I became very intrigued by the challenge. Can this place be revived with dignity and high quality for the community? I ended up going to Dimock and thinking I would be there for 3 years. Then it turned into 5 years, and 5 into 10 years. I ended up staying there for 21 years. It was a very important 21 years of my life. To be given that opportunity was a tremendous leap

of faith in me. I learned so much about people and management. How you manage with your values, and how you can do that and have integ-rity and still be a strong manager.

> CM: What were you most proud of during your time there?JJ: I was most proud of the people whom I had the opportunity to bring to Dimock, to work or to volunteer and serve – just amazing people – and the ability to help them find their passion. There were many issues other people weren’t taking on. I was there during the early days of AIDS, I had the opportunity to say go take it on. I feel very fortunate to have been a cheerleader, a booster for these people to go do their work.

> CM: Most presidents take a path through academia before becoming a college president. did you every question yourself or were you nervous because your lack of experience?JJ: Well, Yea. I didn’t know that I would end up in higher education. I also loved my job at Dimock. I also believed very strongly that no person should be an institution. Part of good leadership is figuring out when it’s time to move on. It really took me a number of years, partly because there was always a need. But when I decided to leave Dimock, I knew three things about me. I really loved the challenge of transformation, I wanted to be in a leader-ship role, and most importantly that I wanted to be in a mission driven institution where I can help people transform their lives, or find their passion.

I was a bit nervous. I wasn’t nervous about my capacity or my ability to lead, I was more nervous about actually getting in, being ac-cepted. I was very impressed with everybody, particularly the trustees, who were willing to take a chance on someone wasn’t from educa-

tion, someone who didn’t bring the jargon, but had a passionate commitment to the mission.

> CM: What surprised you about running a college?JJ: Two things. It’s very complex, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a small college like Wheelock or a huge institution like Northeastern. There are many stakeholders. You have students, parents, the board, faculty and the surrounding com-munity.

The other thing that surprised me, which I shouldn’t have been so surprised about, is these institutions have long histories and memories. So change, at some levels, is difficult and takes time. For me, I can be impatient and I want things to move. It’s about finding the right balance and creating the urgency to move and change, but also being respectful of the history and the processes.

> CM: does the fact that you come from a different background help give you the ability to change things faster? JJ: Colleges and universities are now in the midst of transformation, like so many things. There is a growing acceptance that these institutions have to be able to adapt to the environment they are in. I came in with some principles. One was that they hired me for a reason. I’ve got to hold onto my values, my sense of transparency and my good instincts of institutional change. But I have to be open to listen and find that balance. I must say that I feel very fortunate because many, many parts of the institution were open to that. I really felt like I was having an impact and that the institu-tion was also being respected and honored. It’s been a good five years.

> CM: You are a co-ed institution but predominantly female. are you working to balance this out?JJ: Yes for several reasons. In terms of the so-ciety we need more men who are actually out there working on behalf of children, especially young children. So yes, we want to have men for a variety of reasons, but most importantly is that men have a lot to offer in the development of young children.

We have a growth strategy to bring more men. It has to do partially with showing them

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BY JoaNNE M. ChoI

Marie-Claude Mendy’s story goes something like this: girl lives in Paris, girl lives in Lon-don, girl lives in DC, girl visits

Boston and decides to quit her job and move here. After attaining a full-time job as a financial analyst, she decides to open up a senegalese restaurant called teranga.

Teranga is Marie-Claude Mendy’s dream busi-ness, which was merely a business plan for years. Her eyes sparkle and her confidence and enthusi-asm come out when she explains her motivation, “I have always wanted to open a restaurant. I am a big foodie. I cook and I entertain. My friends knew that this was a matter of time and it was going to happen.”

Owning and operat-ing a restaurant while working a full-time day job is almost unheard of in the industry, but Marie-Claude is mak-ing it work with equal parts passion and busi-ness savvy. Underneath all her energy lurks the struggle of keeping her goal alive. “It took 7 years for me to write my business plan. I could have written it in 6 months but I wanted to make sure that I was ready. I also wanted to find a super location price wise. You have to separate reality from dreams. I was super conservative on my projections. ” Every Sat-urday, after sleeping in she reviews her budget and analyzes her projec-tions from 9 to 11 a.m. – she wants to ensure that her diligence pays off. “This is the first in Boston, but it can go either way. By nature I am optimist, but you have to be ready. I could be thorough but still fail. At least I am giving it a try.”

On a recent Friday, an hour before the dinner rush, most of the 13 tables and 10 bar stools in the restaurant were empty. The hardwood floors, brick walls and colorful artwork create an urban sophistication with some traditional Senegalese

accents. The yellow napkins, mirror the v ibrant yel low of Marie-Claude’s scarf. When asked about this choice of color, she smiled and laughed, “It is my preference but it is part of the culture. For instance, the flag is yellow and red. It was not done consciously. I

love yellow and colors. I am a positive, colorful person.”

Ultimately, Marie-Claude wants her clientele to be comfortable. If that means they want to sit quietly at the bar and read a book, she will cater to their needs. If they are in a chatty mood, she will converse.

And it seems like Marie-Claude can discuss anything: her love of Boston (though she will be the first one to complain about the winter), the parallels between Boston and London, her

passion for Latin music, the similarities between Asian and African cultures, anecdotes about her mother and, of course, food.

Her favorite appetizer is the Accara, black-eyed pea patties served with a small salad and a spicy tomato onion sauce. After eagerly enjoying the hot and filling circles, we moved onto Nems, fried spring rolls containing chicken and beef. In Senegal, these rolls also have shrimp but Marie-Claude decided not to add the third meat due to customers that might have shrimp allergies. If spring rolls make you think Asia not Africa, it is because much of Senegalese culture has absorbed Vietnamese (and French) influences. “Egg rolls are what are served at every party. You can’t go to a Senegalese party and not have egg rolls.” The dinner menu offers one beef entrée, two fish entrees, three chicken entrees, and three lamb entrees. The wine list is carefully selected and while not large, has a boutique’s whittled-down aesthetic to it.

Right now, however, wearing two different hats keeps this multi-tasking 35-year-old plenty busy. But Marie-Claude, who is a lover of French pastries, wouldn’t mind opening up another busi-ness. Perhaps a pâtisserie is next?

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Everybody brings back a sou-venir from a trip, a photograph or a knick-knack or some other little item to remind them of where they’ve been once they get back home.

For his recent trip to Jordan with the Boston Children’s Choir (BCC), executive Director Da-vid Howse brought back the best souvenir of all – a memory he will always treasure, a memory of a young student standing up in the audience during the question and answer session follow-ing a performance and telling the choir that his heart was full of beauty after hearing them sing. Telling them that they “sounded like angels.”“I still get goose bumps thinking about it,” Howse said. “It’s those little moments of inspired love from the audience that make you realize how important what we are doing really is. It’s more than sounding good and entertaining people. We’re ambassadors of harmony bringing a positive message to people, particularly young people, at home and all over the world.”

Inspired by a performance of the nationally renowned Chicago Children’s Choir, the BCC was founded in 2003 by Hubie Jones, a civic leader who saw the choir as a way to inspire diverse audiences with the power of children singing, both through their sound and in the message of their music. Jones also looked at

the choir as a way to help underprivileged young people find an artistic alternative to the pressures and temptations they face on a daily basis. (An important part of the BCC program is an active Parent’s Association with a mission, among other things, to “consistently assess the needs of families and provide opportunities for support so that families can best prepare and engage their singers.”)

Over the past six years, the choir has performed for thousands of people – millions if you count their historic performance at the nationally broadcast Martin Luther King Day celebration this past January. And as proud

as he is of the concerts, it’s the more indirect impact that the choir has on the people it performs for that Howse treasures the most. It was this audience interaction that led to the choir’s historic trip to Jordan. As Howse explained on the choir’s online blog, the BCC performed at an event at the Harvard Club in 2007 at which the western-educated King Abdullah of Jordan was in attendance. “I could see that the King was really into it and really inspired,” Howse recalled. Following the perfor-

mance, the King met with the kids. “He comes in in a regular suit, shakes every hand, talks to every kid, says ‘I was really inspired by what you did, what you represent; this is how things should really work,’ and vowed his continued support.”

It took two years of steady work to get all the paperwork – and fundraising – done, but the effort paid off in ways that Howse said will last a lifetime. “We do a lot of work ahead of time to make sure we understand the culture of the country and the people we are visiting. It not only makes for a better visit for us, but helps bridge whatever gaps may be between us as people. Sometimes just the simple act of knowing how to say thank you in a person’s own language can make a difference,” he said. “It’s a lesson we should all remember whether we’re part of the government dealing with other countries on a political basis or just a tourist visiting for a few weeks.”

The work – and good manners – of the choir paid off; the tour was a great success and Howse said he would like to schedule an encore performance as soon as the BCC can raise the money. In the meantime, he added, he’ll cher-ish the memories they made.

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you should do with your life. That’s ridiculous. You should know in your heart what’s right and what’s wrong. And you also shouldn’t judge a person you don’t know for their mistakes or their good attributes in life. People are foolish to ever look at other people as role models and copy what they wear and what they do. You’re not being yourself,” she said. “It’s one thing to inspire people to explore their own art or to do things they’ve always wanted to do. That’s happened to me. I watched Harpo Marx play the harp and thought, ‘I’d like to do that.’ But I’m not going to follow his whole life and start wearing a wig and suddenly stop talking.”

because they knew me as a friend and accepted what I was doing.”

Judging one’s perfor-mance is never easy, but it is something Yi said she has learned to do over her career, be it on the stage or in a movie.

“I get a lot of offers to play a wacky Asian character with a ‘funny’ accent, and I’m not going to do that. I once auditioned for a part that was originally for a gay man, but the producers said they were open to other things. Before I went in to audition, they told me I should do an accent, I said, ‘Like a British accent, or maybe a New York accent?’ And I got all excited. But they wanted an Asian accent, so I asked them why? Was it important to the character or just part of the joke? They said it was part of the joke. I just left. There’s

as good as she was in the movie, nobody ever mistakes Julia roberts for Erin Brokovich in real life. Everybody knows she was just acting

BY JohN BLaCK

Charlyne Yi is having just the opposite prob-lem. In her new movie, “Paper Heart,” she plays a young woman on a quest to see if true love – something she has never felt herself – actually exists. The film’s documentary style and Yi’s engaging per-formance have inspired audience members at promotional screenings to stay after the movie and take part in the Q&A with the actress. Only their Q’s are more of the advice variety than actual questions.

“There was some man who stood up and said, ‘Don’t you think you are going to analyze your relationships until you end up alone?’ Ouch,” Yi said, laughing at the memory. “He thinks he was just asking a question but he was really passing judgment on my character and on me. It’s so strange. I just told him that there’s nothing wrong in analyzing what you have and what you don’t have in life. And I think it’s smart to just not jump into something, whether it’s a job or a relationship.

“And besides,” she added, as if anticipating the question again, “I’m doing fine.”

Truth be told, Yi is more amused than upset by people’s reaction to her performance in the film. In fact, she admit-

ted to going through a similar reaction about herself as she and direc-tor Nicholas Jasenovec worked their way through more than 300 hours of footage to find the story they were try-ing to tell. “It’s so weird to try and step back and look for a performance in all this video, especially because some of it is me just doing interviews and some of it is me being a character and acting in the scenes we did to go between the interviews,” she said. “It’s easy to cut out scenes that are too broad or that just stick out because the tone is wrong or they don’t work. It’s a lot harder to find what you like. I wanted to cut a lot of me out. I was much more interested in the people I was interviewing. I thought people only liked me in the movie

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no problem doing an accent if it’s a part of the character, but I just feel uncomfortable when people expect me to be a stereotype.”

With a family heritage that spans the globe - her father’s family is Mexican, Korean, Irish, French and Native American and her mom’s is Filipino and Native American -- Yi admitted that she probably faces more challenges than the average All-American-looking young actress going out for auditions, but while she is glad at the idea that young women of any ethnic background will watch her movie and be inspired to make their own, she insists that she is not a role model.

“I don’t believe in role models. I think it would be so dumb to look up to a stranger for what

> Yi with ‘Paper Heart’ co-star michael Cera


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If you don’t know the name Jay Calderin and you are in the fashion and design industry then you may have been in a coma over the past few years. He is the founder and executive director of Boston Fash-ion Week, director of creative marketing and an instructor at the school of Fashion Design, a clothing designer, an author, a mentor and an artist. He brings together the best of the Boston fashion and

creative world and uses his past experience to help our city evolve in the fashion business. He is not only an innovator but he is an inspiration.

Jay started Boston Fashion Week in 1995 and has been teaching at the School of Fashion Design since 2002. It was important for him to create Fashion Week in Boston to unite the community, and to express the importance of a city evolving. With so much wonderful talent in the area, why not create a week to showcase that to the people of Boston while also helping Boston grow? Before he created Fashion Week, he designed clothes at 14 years old, worked in various fashion houses in New York City and created his own label . He wanted to teach others and help other fellow designers promote their collections to the Boston clientele.

Boston Fashion Week is not an easy task, even after 14 of them. The planning starts a year in advance and takes a lot of organizing, scheduling and patience to make happen. But, for him, the real pay-off is in the men-toring. “Mentor-ing and coaching is so important, that’s how Boston Fashion Week has grown,” he said. You would never think that a fashion week is where you would find loving, welcoming designers and instructors of design helping one another and genuinely wanting each other to succeed.

This is not Jay’s only job. He is the director of creative marketing, and an instructor at the School of Design on Newbury Street. Education and mentoring are huge parts of Jay’s life, not just because these things are a part of his ca-reer, but they are what he loves to do. “Fashion is great, but when you talk about education in creative aspects like fashion, people really need the support,” he said. “Mentoring and coaching are so important.” Jay develops special projects and educational programs for fashion talent and

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He also serves on the design advisory com-mittee for Digma, the Design Group of Mas-sachusetts and has been a Big Brother for more than 8 years earning the Big Brother of the Year Award of Massachusetts for 2009. This

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mortgages, raising families; they were very serious about their studies. They were very focused and a joy to work with. These are the kinds of students we’re serving at Cambridge College. These are my folks.

> CM: how did you end up going to harvard?> TG: I was doing a public policy internship program at George Wash-ington University. Three of the partici-pants had already gotten degrees from Harvard, and just from being around them, silly things, like that they watch football and drink beer, I thought these folks are just like me! And it sort of planted the idea that maybe Harvard is something that I would like to look at.

I applied to Harvard and to the Ford Foundation for the graduate fellowship they were offering and got accepted. That was really the closest I had come to winning the lottery in my life. It paid for everything at Harvard, and I wouldn’t have been able to afford it otherwise.

> CM: Were the cultural differences challenging when you came north?> TG: Another reason I call it the lottery was that a year after, my wife received a ford fellowship and was admitted to Harvard as well. I was for-tunate to already be married. It makes a world of difference having someone with you to share the experience. And also as a family we came into contact with other Latino families. We must have this special radar because we somehow find each other. We had a nice supportive community.

> CM: how much did the fact that you already had lived in Cambridge affect your decision to come back? > TG: I think that it made the move less of a mystery. There were people who scratched their heads and said, ‘You’re a Texan you spent most of your life in Texas, what in the world are you doing up in Cambridge, Mass.?’ I tell them my wife and I lived up there for four years, then they don’t think I’m going off into a foreign country, or a strange planet quite as much.

And the other thing is that we have

one daughter, she’s our favorite, and is a schoolteacher down in San Antonio. So we have all kinds of reasons, and the resources now with airplanes, to keep in touch with the Southwest. I don’t have that feeling of disconnec-tion and homesickness as a young man without a family.

> CM: What appeals to you about Cambridge that you don’t get in Texas? > TG: Let me work that backwards, from the standpoint of what Cam-bridge was like when we first got here. It explains why Cambridge is such a special place.

As students, we had an opportunity to attend a lecture with B.F. Skinner at Longfellow Hall. And I remember thinking to myself, ‘I’m about ten feet away from B.F. Skinner!’ I just couldn’t get over that. Harvard was making something like that possible.

Every fall when we were here, Oc-tavio Paz would teach and we would go over and sit in on his lectures – not even registered for the class – just to be able to breathe the same air that was being breathed by Octavio Paz!

Another time, we had this friend of ours, Raquel, who ran into Julia Child at a store, and she said, “So glad I ran into you! I want to invite you over the apartment for some real Mexican food! Would you like to come?” Julia consid-ered and said, “You know, I would.”

Raquel started calling our network of Chicano friends. We all thought this was silly; Julia Child isn’t going to show up. But we decided it’s a good excuse to have a nice party. Low and behold Julia Child and her husband showed up, and we had a marvelous time. There is story after story of things that happened while we were here that made this place special.

> CM: What do you like to do in your free time?> TG: I love to fish. I like to read. My favorite time of the year is in the fall, I’m a big college football fan. Let me share with you that here at Cambridge College, both our basketball and our football teams are undefeated and they have been for decades.

> CM: Can you take any credit for that?> TG: No. We don’t have any teams.

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the Boston Center for Community Justice’s (BCCJ) opening Boston Awards & leadBoston Class of 2009 Graduation was held June 24 at the Boston Harbor Hotel. the Awards honor socially responsible leaders committed to Greater Boston and raise funds to support the BCCJ’s leadership development programs and networks.

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layer of shredded newspaper and moisten with water, 1 quart of soil to help the compost-ing process, and one pound of red wiggler worms. Place the bin in a dark area like a pantry or closet in a convenient place for you to access every time you

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that the professions they leave Wheelock with, add value to society. And then doing things that are more attractive to men, we have started men’s sports. We’ve expanded the number of career options. We have a major in communica-tions, and its not the standard major, we really focus on families and children. If you want to be a filmmaker or a writer or journalist, we help you look at it through the lens of understanding the development of the child.

> CM: Boston Public Schools (BPS) and many other inner city schools are looking for teachers of color to better reflect the student body. are you trying to attract more students of color to Wheelock?

JJ: Absolutely, when I came here something like under ten percent were students of color. Last year’s first-year class was 27 percent stu-dents of color. I think we are up to about 18 percent now. We also have instituted some incredible programs to attract young student learners in Boston to the field of teaching. So we have a summer program that has BPS stu-dents coming here. We have an upward bound program which is really the only in the nation geared towards teaching.

I think we touched over 1,200 BPS students just in our youth prevention work alone last year, these are all high school and middle school students who come through Wheelock for some program. Our position is that we want these students to see themselves on a college campus, to aspire to get a good education. It

would be great if they come to Wheelock but it’s really important for them to see themselves going to college and graduating from college somewhere – whether it’s here or someplace else. But we think that by spending time on our campus they are going to come to appreciate what we have to offer!

> CM: What do you hope to achieve before you leave?JJ: Two years ago I wrote to our alumni and to some of our key donors. I said that in 2013, which is the 125th anniversary of Wheelock College, I want us to be the premier education institution in this country for people who are devoted to improving the lives of children and families. It’s a tall order, but I think we can do it. We want to be the best!

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Education is the social instrument used to prepare individuals to work and meet the needs of society. Without this formal process, people could not organize themselves to serve and advance society. Advanced studies, like a graduate degree, help progress in many ways—but they are mostly based on orienting and instructing the individual on how to function in society.

One area that has largely been neglected in education, both public and private, is in the emotional life of individuals. Pick up any newspaper and count the number of assaults, murders, and drug addictions and see if this is not so. Missing in our education process are the essential lessons of how to express care, appre-ciation, disapproval, and concern in a healthy

way. These lessons are addressed indirectly, if at all and often it is left to mental health professionals to address them when they are in conflict with or prevent social functioning.

Emotional learning begins informally, at home, when the child is born. For the first five years of his or her life, a child learns all about the emotional life of his or her parents. In the

West, the prevailing story of parent-hood is that two people get together following an unconscious process of “falling in love.” This process recreates the dynamic within each member of the couple that brings to the relation-ship all of the difficulties encountered growing up in their own families. The conflicts that remain unresolved are the ones that will surface and have to be dealt with in the couple’s relation-ship. This lack of understanding about why we feel attracted to our husband or wife, or partner is a life drama.

Some people say “I never will be like my mother (or father)…” but in truth, most of us have learned behavior from our parents during the first years of life. As adults we tend to repeat the difficult things that our parents avoid-ed and use them as destructive drives in marriage. In other words, marriage and parenthood start in conflict.

The couple may want to gain self-esteem by training to avoid repeating the negative lessons that they learned from their family of origin, and to bring to the relationship the good things too. The children play it out in their school with their peers and teachers. Some situations are manageable and others are not. It is left to a specialist in mental health to deal with it. The problem is that there are too many families within which education on the emotional life should have as high a priority as intellectual education.

This society focuses so much on the intellect that it often denies the existence of emotions. Emotions, we

are told, are to be hidden and controlled, as op-posed to expressed in an appropriate manner. If this understanding were reversed, many of the new illnesses in society might be relieved, and the acts of violence that permeate our society would not take such alarming proportions.

Democracy depends on participation, but not on dialogue. Dialogue involves the inner life of the individual. Before it can take place, emotions have to be felt, touched, processed, and expressed in a way that is manageable. When an individual’s emotional life becomes conscious, he or she undergoes the greatest, and potentially most valuable kind learning. The darkness that each one of us has in our own lives no longer controls us. Consciousness is the key to educating the individual. When we learn from our inner life we are able to know how bad, and how good humanity can be, and make the appropriate changes in order to advance society.

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MGH – Rich with Opportunities to Fulfill Your Greatest Potential

Because employees who strive for excellence are always reaching for more, the MGH Training and Workforce Development office develops and promotes innovative employee education and training initiatives. Programs include:

College/Career Fair: An annual event providing employees with one-stop-shopping to explore programs at local colleges and universities.

MGH Leadership Academy: Continuing education and training for MGH managers that balances theory with practical application.

On-Site ESOL Classes for Employees: 10 classes at six levels ranging from Beginner to Advanced.

Spanish at MGH: An on-site Spanish language and cross-cultural competency program for MGH employees designed to enhance service to Spanish-speaking patients and family members.

“Steps to Success” Workshops: Assists adult learners with goal setting and implementing a plan for education or training.

Tuition Assistance Program: Benefits eligible employees can receive up to $2000 per year.

Join us. MGH offers career opportunities in all areas of patient care, research,

administration and operations. To see a complete list of our current opportunities and learn more about our benefits, please visit our website.

www.mghcareers.org

By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead: EOE.

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