Emily Elliott:  

My story? Let me see... After high school, I went to UCDavis for a year, hated it, and transferred to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo where I thrived, dated a lot, took classes like Tractor Maintenance in addition to classes in English and Drama. I surprised myself by not being married by the time I graduated, so moved to Southern California to do various jobs, re-met Chris Byal who was finishing school at Cal Poly Pomona. We moved to Berkeley and got married. I was recruited into the Counseling Psychology Grad program at CSUH Hayward, then began my career years. We were married for 10 years, adopted a baby boy, and got divorced. I worked for PG&E and ultimately directed their Employee Assistance Program during the pioneer years of EAPs. From there I shifted into generalist Human resources work. Was Director of HR for western & southern US for a sales company in Brisbane, Because of son I moved to Walnut Creek where the schools were better, and became Dir. of HR for a Pacific Telesis start-up during the first years after telcom deregulation. I elected not to go with IBM when they acquired the firm, and started working in San Francisco as Director of Staffing & Employee Relations for Pac Bell Directory. After the 1988 earthquake left me stranded across the bay from my son in Kindergarten, I transferred to Pac Bell in San Ramon where I could at least walk home if there was another bad earthquak...Expand for more