11-23-2019, 12:58 AM
Returning to Taos Pueblo for the birth of a son
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/returning-to-taos-pueblo-for-the-birth-of-a-son.jpg" width="2182" height="724" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Adonis grew up at Taos Pueblo, but his parents sent him to school in Tucson when he was transitioning from middle school to high school. Every summer, he’d return to Taos Pueblo and fall in love with the land more and more.</p>
<p>But spending the school year elsewhere gave him a different perspective when he returned. He wanted to do something with the skills he was gaining every year to help Taos Pueblo keep growing and thriving. This desire eventually solidified into his life’s purpose: to serve indigenous communities. What wasn’t as clear was how he’d do that.</p>
<p>His path led him to graduate school to study business, with the idea that a business degree would provide many useful tools and bring multiple opportunities to fulfil this purpose.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-37937 size-full" src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/returning-to-taos-pueblo-for-the-birth-of-a-son.jpg" alt="A side-by-side photo of a boy playing outside and playing baseball" width="2182" height="724"></p>
<p>During his time in grad school, he worked on a project for Microsoft and was introduced to one of the project sponsors, Mike Miles. Mike was just putting together a new team at the company, now the Talent Workforce and Community Development Team, whose goal was to build and nurture relationships with the local communities that hosted Microsoft’s datacenters. Adonis took interest in the project because he observed a genuine interest in the company to create meaningful and long-term <span class="emdash-wrap">impact—something</span> that at the time was counterintuitive to his perspective of corporate America.</p>
<p>Over a few months of working with Mike, who Adonis describes as a visionary and authentic leader, Adonis began to soften to the idea of corporate work, especially if it meant he had a way in to develop relationships with local and potentially native peoples. A year later, he started working on Mike’s team.</p>
<p>In addition, Adonis has taken a voluntary leadership role to organize with a group of indigenous employees who work at Microsoft to create their own official employee resource group inside the company.</p>
<p>“I see myself building on top of all of this work to continue to serve indigenous peoples,” he says.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2019/11/...-of-a-son/
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/returning-to-taos-pueblo-for-the-birth-of-a-son.jpg" width="2182" height="724" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Adonis grew up at Taos Pueblo, but his parents sent him to school in Tucson when he was transitioning from middle school to high school. Every summer, he’d return to Taos Pueblo and fall in love with the land more and more.</p>
<p>But spending the school year elsewhere gave him a different perspective when he returned. He wanted to do something with the skills he was gaining every year to help Taos Pueblo keep growing and thriving. This desire eventually solidified into his life’s purpose: to serve indigenous communities. What wasn’t as clear was how he’d do that.</p>
<p>His path led him to graduate school to study business, with the idea that a business degree would provide many useful tools and bring multiple opportunities to fulfil this purpose.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-37937 size-full" src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/returning-to-taos-pueblo-for-the-birth-of-a-son.jpg" alt="A side-by-side photo of a boy playing outside and playing baseball" width="2182" height="724"></p>
<p>During his time in grad school, he worked on a project for Microsoft and was introduced to one of the project sponsors, Mike Miles. Mike was just putting together a new team at the company, now the Talent Workforce and Community Development Team, whose goal was to build and nurture relationships with the local communities that hosted Microsoft’s datacenters. Adonis took interest in the project because he observed a genuine interest in the company to create meaningful and long-term <span class="emdash-wrap">impact—something</span> that at the time was counterintuitive to his perspective of corporate America.</p>
<p>Over a few months of working with Mike, who Adonis describes as a visionary and authentic leader, Adonis began to soften to the idea of corporate work, especially if it meant he had a way in to develop relationships with local and potentially native peoples. A year later, he started working on Mike’s team.</p>
<p>In addition, Adonis has taken a voluntary leadership role to organize with a group of indigenous employees who work at Microsoft to create their own official employee resource group inside the company.</p>
<p>“I see myself building on top of all of this work to continue to serve indigenous peoples,” he says.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2019/11/...-of-a-son/