Trisha Calvarese: “I was most recently speech writing at the AFL CIO in…”

“I grew up in Highlands Ranch in Douglas county and went to those public schools which led to a full academic scholarship at the Johns Hopkins University. I was most recently speech writing at the AFL CIO in Washington, DC and working at the US National Science foundation as a federal civil servant. when life happened. Both my parents had cancer at the same time, and I am an only child.” (00:47–00:57)

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