By Stacy Nguyen
Northwest Asian Weekly
The Pioneers honorees and their guests (Photo by George Liu/NWAW)
Today, pioneers don’t hate to don coonskin hats to blaze trails. In fact, they come in all sorts of garb. Read the full story
Tag Archive | "Sheila Burrus"
Giving back: the secret to the successes of Pioneers in Social Entrepreneurship
Posted on 27 October 2011.
Posted in Community News, Vol 30 No 44 | 10/29-11/4Comments (0)
Sheila Burrus: a leader who helps Filipino community
Posted on 18 August 2011.
By Cheih-hsin “Jessie” Lin
UW News Lab
Sheila Burrus
Sheila Burrus and her family arrived in Washington state from Batangas, Philippines, in 1990. She first attended De La Salle, Lipa, and the University of St. Thomas in Philippines. She finished her degree in nursing in Georgia after coming to the United States.
After realizing that nursing wasn’t the right career for her, Burrus moved back to Seattle. She worked at a fast food restaurant, where she was soon recruited by her manager at the restaurant to work at KeyBank, which, in turn, introduced her to the banking industry. Read the full story
Posted in Community News, Profiles, Vol 30 No 34 | 8/20-8/26Comments (1)
New faces in new places
Posted on 02 September 2010.
From left to right: Sheila Burrus, Kiku Hayashi, and Mika Kurose Rothman
Sheila Burrus is the new president of the Filipino Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest.
Burrus was born and raised in Batangas, Philippines, and attended De La Salle Lipa University and the University of St. Thomas. Read the full story
Posted in Names in the News, Vol 29 No 36 | 9/4-9/10Comments (0)
