Anne earned her undergraduate degree in Finance from Mercyhurst University in Pennsylvania and her Master of Business Administration from UW Tacoma in 2010. She has over 20 years’ experience in human resources, working in a variety of industries over her career from plastics manufacturing to luxury jet travel. Stay after for light snacks, socializing, and networking.Īnne Kerker is the Director of Human Resources for Farallon Consulting, an employee-owned environmental consulting firm. As we celebrate Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Heritage Month, she will be interviewed by a student and share about her career, academic experience and more. She will share about her career, academic experience and more. She facilitates Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) parent education classes that support parent-child relationships and managing behaviors and triggers that have disproportionately affected families of color as a preventative approach to keeping families from entering the child welfare system. She helped start the first Diaper Bank in Pierce County during the COVID-19 pandemic. Upon graduation, she joined the team as a Family Support Specialist, and is now the Early Learning Director serving children and families from Pierce and surrounding counties to change trajectories, empower and uplift families by increasing access to opportunities through culturally relevant services. While pursuing her degree at UWT in 2013, she served as an intern at the Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center. She joined the Palmer Scholars Board of Directors in 2016, and now serves as their Board President and mentor as a way to pay it forward for the years of support received. She was a Palmer Scholar, a scholarship program that prepares students of color in Pierce County for post-secondary pathways and pairs them with a mentor that follows them throughout their time in college. She went to the University of Washington Tacoma, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Social Welfare with a passion for serving the community from which she came. Interviewed by current student David PortugalĪmalia grew up in Spanaway, WA with strong ties to the military on both sides of her family, and deep cultural ties to her Chamorro roots, with both parents from the island of Guam. Light snacks and networking after the event
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