When Patience Guides a Working Mother’s Ambition
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Wife, mother, vice president: the three leading roles that Florecita (Carías) Mejía ’08 plays daily. The ambitious businesswoman has her hands full between her growing family and a leadership role at Bank of New York Mellon.
The Cause for Leaving a Trace
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How the Ytzen-Handels live illustrates what is important to them, and so it can look different than what many people have grown accustomed to in 21st-century America.
Making Space for Serendipity
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Sometimes it’s that chance encounter—with the Uber driver, airplane passenger or person who appears out of nowhere with a set of jumper cables when a car battery dies—that, like a railway switch, sends us off in a newfangled direction.
Becoming Mom and Dad
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Jake ’04 and Lauren x’08 Kreyling had originally made plans for a family of four and became a family of eight. “First you exercise your faith and then see why,” says Jake.