PJ profiles Kristen Kaszeta
Director of communications and special projects
Think Detroit PAL, Detroit, Mich.
Think Detroit PAL
Think Detroit PAL annually provides 12,000 Detroit-area children age
four to 19 with academic support or leadership training, youth sports
programs and skill-development camps and clinics.
How do you and your co-workers relax during challenging times?
We love sports. All of us have been in sports throughout our lives.
Name a book you’ve read in the past year that has inspired you or your work.
“Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. It says: “Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.”
What is the biggest technology-related change you’ve seen in the past three years?
Websites are amazing and necessary for nonprofit work. A website can open the door, inspire a vision, make you cry.
What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever heard a child say?
Recently watching Star Wars with Ella, my four-year-old daughter, I
told her I had wanted to marry Han Solo. “You can’t marry Han Solo,
mom,” she said. “He is only in the movies. Luke Skywalker is probably
for real. I can probably marry him when he gets younger.”
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