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title: "Executive Summary: Brenda Villarreal"
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#### On my desk right now …

PRSM Foundation’s strategic plan, DELP class project, PRSM’s National Conference education program, my Ignite session outline for ASAE’s 2019 Annual Meeting

#### My three goals for 2019

1. Take more risks in life. No guts, no glory.
2. Earn my CAE.
3. Visit Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. My Ancestry DNA results revealed those countries make up my ethnicity.

#### If I weren’t doing this, I’d …

… be in the hospitality industry or a corporate law paralegal.

#### My media mix

**Music:** Lady Gaga, Sade, Daniela Darcourt, The Chainsmokers, Anitta, Dua Lipa, Coldplay

**TV:** *SNL, Game of Thrones, Grace and Frankie, One Day at a Time*

**Podcasts:** TED Talks Daily, Nonprofit Optimist, Wall Street Journal, GaryVee 365

#### What I do when I’m not at work

Travel with my wife; enjoy the performing arts; binge-watch Netflix; spend time with my fur baby Denny, family, and friends

(Justin Clemons)

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