Caption: Gloria Perez, Credit: alumni.stthomas.edu
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Gloria Perez 

Women's History Month, Gloria Perez - March 1st

Series: Women's History Month
From: KUMD
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KUMD salutes Minnesota’s Gloria Perez, CEO and President of the Jeremiah Program. Read the full description.
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Gloria_perez_small Gloria Perez is the CEO and President of the Jeremiah Program, a community initiative helping low-income single women and their children in Minneapolis. Prior to this work she was an executive director of Casa De Esperanza, a domestic violence agency in St. Paul. In 2008 she was a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, and we spotlight her now for Women’s History Month.

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Gloria Perez is the CEO and President of the Jeremiah Program, a community initiative helping low-income single women and their children in Minneapolis. Prior to this work she was an executive director of Casa De Esperanza, a domestic violence agency in St. Paul. In 2008 she was a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, and we spotlight her now for Women’s History Month.

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