Oral History

Henrietta J. Burroughs Interview

Themes:
Subjects:
Plugged In, Omowale Satterwhite, Goro Mitchell, Henrietta J. Burroughs, Hewlett Neighborhood Improvement Initiative, One East Palo Alto, Hewlett Foundation, Todd Stoval, Magda Escobar, Hugh Burroughs, Renee Glover Chantler
Date of Creation or Publication:
6/26/2025
Creator
Meda Okelo
Donor
Henrietta J. Burroughs
Language
English
Copyright Statement:
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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