Eva Blanco Masias, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Santa Clara University, shares her story, including how a significant national crisis 19 years ago led her to leave a highly successful career to jump into the admissions and enrollment world.

Shout-outs
Rod Skinner (and his mother, Mrs. Skinner)
Mike Sexton
Sandra Hayes
Charlie Nolan
Patrick Lorenzo

Rapid Descent

• Walkout song:  Mi Gente by J Balvin, Willy William ft. Beyoncé
• Best recent read: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (also The Magic Treehouse series, essential parent-child reading)
• Eager to read next: Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life by Troy R. Saxby
• Podcast: Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa; LatinxAmerica, Adriana Flores-Ragade
• Favorite thing to make in the kitchen: Her mother's puzzle recipe. 
• What she uses to take and keep notes: A computer.
• Memorable bit of advice: From Charlie Nolan (former Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at Santa Clara University): "Do the fundamentals fundamentally well."
• Bucket list: Traveling to Europe, to "venture and explore all of it ... multiple times."

The ALP is supported by RHB, a division of SIG. Music arranged by Ryan Anselment