Career Day

Keri Adams (class of 1999 of St Francis) is a seasoned professional in the accounting industry with over 20 years of experience. As a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), she has specialized in both public and private companies accounting roles, particularly in Top 10 national CPA firm,  construction and start-ups. Since 2013, Keri has served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Royal Electric, where she oversees operations such as Human Resources, Risk Management, Talent, IT, and Finance. 

Rosie Lucchesini-Jack is the Director of the CalSTRS Fixed Income portfolio. She began her career at CalSTRS in 2001, most recently serving as Senior Portfolio Manager, where she led the management of public debt portfolios and oversaw the expansion into direct lending and private credit. Prior to this role, she worked as a Portfolio Manager for 10 years, focusing on U.S. Treasury portfolios and strategies. From 2001 to 2012, Lucchesini-Jack held various investment officer positions within Fixed Income.
 

Studied painting and art history in Northern California before moving to New York in 1979. Continued to paint and exhibit during the tenure in the corporate world of entertainment at NBC (National Broadcasting Company) as the Director of International Marketing. As the millennium approached, moved back to California to pursue the dream of bringing art into people’s lives. Inspired by the love of the arts, and the work of Betty Parsons, the artist, dealer, and collector who championed the work of many artists, launched Estrada Fine Art in 2005.

Some call her a rare breed, I would agree, Aurora Singh blessed her immigrant parents with her arrival into the world in January 1992 and continuously doused her sparkle upon the world as she grew up in Sacramento, California in the good ol’ Catholic school system. You won’t regret the deep belly laughs you experience as a result of her hilarious straight forward real comedy. After 9 years of bringing the funny, Aurora has been featured on Sirius XM, ABC’s The 100K Pyramid and has performed with incredible comedians such as Sheng Wang, Greg Fitzsimons, Anthony Jeselnik, Roy Wood Jr.

I am a former CIA Targeting Officer and a U.S. Army veteran, presently working in security at Cisco. I began my career as an Intelligence Officer in the Army and upon returning from deployment, transitioned to the role of a U.S. Army Jumpmaster, teaching Soldiers how to conduct Airborne operations and safely exit an aircraft at altitude. After the Army, I transitioned to my role as a Targeting Officer with the CIA. While at CIA, I identified people, relationships, and organizations with access to information needed to disrupt high priority threats to U.S. interests.

I’ve spent the bulk of my career (~20 years) on the Construction/Project Management and Estimating side. Project Contract experience over the years involved both public and private owners with focus on infrastructure scope including mass grading (subdivisions, sitework, dam modifications), hard rock excavation, structural & minor concrete, utilities, and roadway improvements.

Brandy Bolden is the Chief Customer Officer at SMUD, charged with customer experience delivery across our residential and commercial customer segments. Brandy provides leadership and oversight of customer operations including customer care and revenue management, business intelligence, strategic account management, customer experience and segmentation strategy, channel management, and special assistance initiatives. She owns commercial development, business attraction and retention and oversees Community Energy Services, which supports community choice aggregators.

My name is Ria Flores, and I’m a marketing and alumni relations professional at Stanford University, focusing on digital strategy and making a global impact. I graduated from St. Francis in 2013 and currently serve as president of our Alumnae Board. I studied communications at UC Davis and received my bachelor’s degree in 2017. My journey into the world of marketing has been filled with creativity, growth, and discovery. During college, I honed my skills through internships in marketing, social media, graphic design, and video production, building the foundation for my diverse career.

I’m currently a Software Engineer on the COE (Center of Excellence) team for VSP. My job is to perform development for VSP’s Salesforce, which includes front-end and back-end development. I’ve been working for the team for 2 and a half years and it is my first full time job. I graduated from UC Davis in 2021 with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. It took a while to get where I’m at today and many times, I didn’t think I would achieve what I’ve achieved today. I remember in college I dreamed of working full time and living freely.

Hannah has 12 years of experience working in School District Maintenance, Operations and Planning/Construction in California. Hannah started her career in Resource Conversation for Sacramento City USD at which she administered a program that identifies problematic areas within site utilities, ran Project Green, and instructed the Maintenance Technician Certificate Program for Adults. From there, she became the Assistant Director of Facilities for Western Placer USD in which she supported school district planning and oversaw school district construction.

I am an HR Director and have been in the HR profession for over 30 years.  I spend my day supporting, enabling, and energizing people from all walks of life.  I find the work challenging and very rewarding.

Marinda Johnson Sessoms has been a Television and Arts Producer for PBS KVIE over 19 years. She has won numerous awards, including 3 Regional Emmy Awards and 14 Emmy nominations. 2010 Sacramento Observer Black Expo 30 under 30 Outstanding Young leaders Honoree, 2015 Alliance for Women in Media Examples of Excellence-Creative Talent,The Sacramento Bee’s 2023 Top 25 Black Change Maker.

Hi, everyone! After graduating from SFHS in 2009, I obtained my BS in Criminal Justice from CSU Sacramento in 2012. I then attended the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office’s Basic Recruit Academy from 2013 to 2014, and have been with the department ever since. As such, I’ve held various assignments, including corrections (two years), patrol (five years, field training officer for two of those years), and investigations (three years). I also obtained my MA in Criminal Justice from ASU in 2022.

Kathleen Mastagni Storm is a partner with Mastagni Holstedt, APC. Kathleen’s practice focuses on public and private union organizing, unfair labor practice litigation, collective bargaining and contract enforcement.  Kathleen practices in state and federal court and does appellate work.

Her areas of expertise include representing public safety officers in administrative disciplinary matters as well as in critical incidents, such as a death in law enforcement custody and the use of deadly force.

Ashley Santillan is a dedicated oncology nurse at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and an aspiring Family Nurse Practitioner currently pursuing her Doctoral degree in Nursing at the UC Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. Her nursing journey began in 2020, after earning her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Concordia University Irvine, when she became a pediatric nurse at a level 1 trauma center in Los Angeles.

Since 2013 when I earned my Masters in Counseling, I have been helping individuals to recover from complex trauma which often begins with an abusive and/or neglectful childhood resulting in a chronic cycle of dysfunctional relationships. Those caught in this unconscious pattern can end up in emotionally and even physically abusive relationships unaware that they are repeating the pattern they learned in childhood.

Many of you know me as a substitute teacher but I have been a Realtor for 13 years. I began selling homes when my youngest daughter started kindergarten, she is now a senior at St Francis. When I was shopping for our first home I loved learning about each home and thought it was an interesting career.  I love helping others, listening to their wants and needs, and I especially love negotiating.  So when the time came for me to consider going back to work I decided this might be the perfect job for me. I have been so fortunate to have found success and have many repeat clients.

Penny Chatzis enters her eighth season with the Kings, as the Director, Team Player Development, Executive Assistant to Kings GM Monte McNair and team Notary. In her role with Sacramento, Chatzis  is responsible for implementation of the Kings Academy program, a developmental, player-centric curriculum aligning multi-faceted organizational philosophies and ideals to help athletes mature into well-rounded professionals.

Diane is a woman in Tech but is not in a Tech role. With a background in Communication and Ethnic Studies, Diane has been creating engaging experiences and optimizing processes as a Project/Program Manager in Talent Acquisition at LinkedIn (San Francisco) for the past 5.5 years. Her day-to-day shifts every week. She might be drafting a newsletter to incoming interns or editing videos to recognize hard working team members. She might be producing a virtual career development workshop or developing a nurture recruiting strategy.