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What would you do if you had millions of dollars at your fingertips?

Let me clarify, what would you do if your job was to take that money and spend it in ways

that would make the world a better place?

That's the question that Carmen Rojas is confronted with every day.

Carmen is the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation.

She stepped into the role just as COVID-19 hit, and this moment is inspiring big questions about generosity, giving, and the future of philanthropy.

Carmen, thank you so much for taking the time to do this.

Oh, thank you so much.

I'm such a fan of you, of your show, and so I'm so glad to be here.

I love when interviews start that way.

Karam, much of your career has focused on improving the life of working people across the

country.

What about your own upbringing drew you to this work?

Yeah.

My mom immigrated from Nicaragua and my dad immigrated from Venezuela.

They landed in San Francisco and they immigrated at this really weird moment in time in U.S. history

where it was the peak of the civil rights movement, the peak of the labor movement, the peak of the feminist movement.

And so my parents with middle school educations, both from very rural places, came to San Francisco and were able to make lives for themselves and for us, for their kids that were so far beyond the things that they could imagine.

So my parents graduated from middle school and I got a PhD from Berkeley. I think a lot

about how that time that my parents immigrated so shaped the opportunities that were available to me

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