| NAME |
| Melanie Rowen |
| EMAIL |
| mrowen@berkeley.edu |
| DEPARTMENT/UNIT |
| Career Development Office |
| TITLE |
| Associate Director for Public Interest Programs |
| WHEN I STARTED WORKING HERE: |
| January 2012 |
| WHAT I DO IN FIVE WORDS OR LESS: |
| Advise public interest-oriented students |
| THE BEST PART ABOUT WORKING HERE: |
| Working with students who are overcoming tremendous challenges just to be here, and who have radical visions for the future. They expand my thinking about what’s possible, and I try to reflect that hope and confidence back to them when they are doubting themselves. |
| SOMETHING YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ME: |
| In high school, I played Snoopy in a production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, which involved dancing on top of a 12-foot-high doghouse and then sliding down the roof for the big finale. I regret nothing. |
| ONE OR TWO TIPS ABOUT THINGS YOU LIKE TO DO AROUND THE BAY AREA: |
| It’s hard to identify obscure facts about Palo Alto, but according to Wikipedia, the coast redwood for which the town is named (El Palo Alto), is over 1,050 years old. It originally had three trunks, of which only one remains standing. Another trunk fell in an 1886 flood and windstorm, and “no one knows what happened” to the other. |
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