by Grace Alfiero | Apr 21, 2021 | Advocacy, Leadership, News, Photography, Storytelling, Travel
In town to attend a national conference on guardianship and elder law, I was in San Francisco twenty-nine years ago when the Rodney King verdict was announced. I remember eating a fresh sourdough avocado sandwich for a late lunch at a small cafe near Fisherman’s...
by Grace Alfiero | Mar 21, 2021 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, feminism, Leadership, leadership transition, Storytelling
Helen Keller is credited with saying, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” It turns out that we are not as fragile as once was thought. We actually can handle the truth...
by Grace Alfiero | Mar 9, 2021 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, feminism, Leadership, Storytelling
In 1966 I was born into an Italian American family living in the northeast. Tradition and the importance of family was invisibly etched into our coat of arms, and consecutively witnessed during ritual Sunday gatherings around a giant bowl filled with macaroni and meat...
by Grace Alfiero | Jul 3, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, COVID Stories, Leadership, News, Pandemic Tales, Storytelling
After college and before I met the man I am married to, I dated a narcissist. During a brutally lengthy five year, on-again, off-again relationship, I was ultimately forced to confront my own control and anxiety issues. Now, my recollections of this time are still...
by Grace Alfiero | May 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, COVID Stories, feminism, Leadership, News, Pandemic Tales, Storytelling
In the early 1990s, I worked for a law office and provided geriatric care management for several of the firm’s clients. We offered family law services, trust, and estate planning, and handled dependency cases. Half of the work was legal in nature, and the other half...
by Grace Alfiero | Apr 20, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, Client News, Leadership, Photography, Program Management, Storytelling
Some not so obvious casualties of this COVID-19 pandemic are the auxiliary services previously provided to communities by nonprofit entities before our worlds were flipped upside down. Once a region has developed processes and procedures to support urgent needs for...
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