Henrietta J. Burroughs Interview

Meda Okelo

Oral History Work

Henrietta J. Burroughs Interview

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Interview of Henrietta J. Burroughs by Meda Okelo. Topics include: her family migration to the Bay Area; after college, moving to Palo Alto with her then husband Hugh Burroughs about 1977; encouraging her husband, a grant officer for the Hewlett Foundation, to invest in EPA, Omowale Satterwhite and incorporation efforts; balancing her personal life raising children, her career and community service; Hewlett Neighborhood Improvement Initiative (NII); working in communications at One East Palo Alto, and then Plugged In; people she worked with; why she left Plugged In; establishing the non-profit EPA Center for Community Media, the resulting EPA Today newspaper and a local talk show Talking with Henrietta; people who helped her along the way; challenges in running a publication; early advertisers; impressions of the changes in EPA; and imagining EPA in the future.

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