Yolanda MacKenzie:  

I don't recall much when turning in my cap & gown at graduation because I believe I had a seizure. I heard later other students thought I was on drugs,but that was not the case then or now with exception to medications that are prescribed. Funny how a lifelong medical condition could be misinterpreted. Anyway, I had a daughter who is a grown up now and does computer support ( IT) for a large company. I took classes part time, weekends, nights,some afternoon classes while I worked. Eventually I managed to enter into the field of Food Service Sciences/Management and Nutrition Dietetics followed by Labor Studies. I had worked as a Food Service Supervisor/Dietetic Assistant, then onto work as a Dietetic Technician in Pediatrics inpatient at UCSF for over 15 years. I was President of a Statewide Union and did a leave of absence from UCSF to work as Executive Director of our Employee Union for just over a year and resigned to go back to UCSF until 1997. My biggest claim to 15 minutes of fame (so to speak) was a personal invitation to meet and dine at the WhiteHouse by personal invitation of President Clinton and Mrs. Hilary Rodham Clinton. After RSVP and providing necessary documents for security clearance the event took place in the fall of his !st year in office. As a guest I was part of a countrywide team of Latino Labor Coalition Board Members/Leaders who worked on getting out the vote. It was a different experience to be attending the WhiteHouse as a guest and to be served cocktails and sit in chairs in the Blue Room and Red Room and Grand BallRoom and so much more...Expand for more