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Contentedness, joy, ease, hope - 👆🏾

This is what you radiate and what we all receive from you in every interaction. Thank you for shining your light here every day. It's like you've left a trail of stars for us to follow. Love you and wishing you all the best in the next chapter, dear Colleen. ❤️ Urm

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Colleen! I feel like Colleen is CareerEd and CareerEd is Colleen! I've learned so much from you in my time here, and I am so thankful for it. Your energy, enthusiasm, ideas, expertise, and your laugh--your laugh!--all make this place what it is, and we will miss you sorely. However, I am very confident that this is a definite see you later! So as we say goodbye, I know we'll be seeing you around plenty, and that makes me happy. All the best as you embark on this new journey. -Sal

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Colleen you will be missed. You have brought so much joy and laughter to our team. I will miss your energy when we did our Fun Team activities and no can read the Kudos like you, no shade to anyone! Think of me when you go get your pedi's. I wish you nothing but the best on your new journey in life.

Love, Dietra

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Thank you for your commitment to students and career development. Thank you for your community building in and out of the office. I wish you best on your next adventure.

~Kristin

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Colleen! Your smile lights up a room and I never fail fail to laugh with joy when I am around you. You have the best sense of humor, great ideas, and such warmth and care. I hope you will stay in touch as you head into this next chapter. As I mentioned when we talked, you are THE BEST, and your family and friends are so blessed to have you. Us colleagues just hope we get the chance to work together again when the time is right! SO much love to you as you embark on this new journey!

Kathy

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Colleen, I remember you from the comments you made during my interview. And then the relationship just grew! MWK! Your spreadsheets and slides! That laugh! All of the fun team shenanigans! Tea with Daisy! All the things. I love you and will miss you so much. You exemplify the heart of this place.

Chris

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Colleen,

You are such a great connecter and ensured I felt welcome right at the start of my CareerEd journey(Im sure many others could agree). I will miss hearing your laugh, bothering you on your onsite days, talking foods we enjoy, and hearing about your kids' latest adventures. Your energy is sunshine and it will be missed. I am wishing you only amazing things on your next adventure, sending you so much love!

Jazmin :)

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Colleen! It's been such a pleasure being able to work with you all these years. It's so hard to imagine CareerEd without you! You have truly made such a huge difference in our office, the students you serve, and the impact that you have had throughout campus. I'm truly going to be missing you and will continue to send good vibes your way. ~Jenny

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Dear Colleen, what a privilege it was to get to work with you! Your warmth, joyfulness, creativity, and ease in making others feel welcome and included (not to mention your ability to GET STUFF DONE!) have been a key part of what made Career Ed, and Stanford in general, such a special place to work. Although I'm sad for Stanford, I'm more thrilled for you that you're making the decision that's right for you and your family. Wishing you all the best on this next chapter.

- Ashley

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You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free

Tom Petty~

Colleen, You are forever in my heart. You have laughed with and at me, cried with me, and supported me.

OXOXOXOX, Linda

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Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down a road and back again
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant

I'm not ashamed to say
I hope it always will stay this way
My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow

Linda

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Colleen, Your energy, your passion, your humor, all your contributions and so many other things - I have really felt privileged working with you all these years. Thank you for all you've done for the students and your colleagues. It has been a pleasure and honor working with you!

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Dear Colleen

I have truly loved working with you over these last few years. Your creativity, insight, clarifying questions and observations, communication skills, your laugh and humor are just a few of your gifts we have all benefited from over the years. You are one of my favorite humans at Stanford and I will miss you. I plan to stay in touch with you and have a feeling this isn't the last time we will work together. I'm glad you are honoring what's most important to you right now, and look forward to hearing what you are learning in this next chapter of your life.

Best,

Kathleen

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Dear Colleen,

Thank you for the joy, inspiration, learning, and community that you've given to so many! Regardless of our center's name, you worked to make a difference for our students, our team, alumni, and campus.

Stanford will not be the same without you.

I wish you well in as you move bravely into your future. I know that you will continue to inspire and educate in all that you do!

Thank you again, Colleen,

James

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bringing enthusiasm to everything you do! Your knowledge of all things Bay Area and campus happenings is truly impressive – you always seem to have the inside scoop on the coolest events!

You've made work so much more fun just by being you! We're so lucky to have had you as a part of our team. Thank you for all that you've done – I'll miss getting into shenanigans with you (and your daughters)! 🌼✨🐿️✂️🥯

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Thank you for the energy, ideas, and warmth you bring to your work! It was such a pleasure working with you this past year. Best of luck on your next adventure, wherever it takes you!

- Sarah T.

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Hey Colleen!

While I'm sad our time together at CareerEd only overlapped for a few months, but I'm thrilled to have had an opportunity to get to know you and work together! It's apparent how much of an impact you've had at CareerEd and Stanford broadly. I'll miss your fun and bubbly personality, and wish you the best as you transition out of this role and get to spend more time with your loved ones.

-Ryan

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It has been such a pleasure collaborating with you on our Cardinal Quarter/CareerEd workshops and getting to know you for the past number of years! You bring such wonderful energy, enthusiasm, humor, snark, and fun to everything you do. I'll miss running into you on Salvatierra Walk and sharing stories about our offices, students, and kids. Please keep in touch and I will text you when we have a Treehouse burrito at Haas!

I'm sure you will rock this upcoming next chapter!

Valerie

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Just a power duo sitting at CLASS Academy.

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Colleen, Where to begin? First, thank you for your work here at BEAMnotBEAM/CareerEd. You have been one of the most amazing people I've gotten to work with at Stanford. I can remember so many ways in which we elevated each other's work—being keynote speakers at CLASS Academy with less than two weeks' notice check. Being the first and only Faces of Staff Presenters check. The future will also bring us something to collaborate on - I am sure of it. I admire your creativity and innovative spirit and know you will take that to your next endeavor. Also, knowing you, it is not far. The other thing I want to appreciate is all the moments of levity. There are so many examples of when you showed up for others, including me, when things were challenging. Whether it was officially part of the FUN Team, or leaving a little note and gift on my desk or words of affirmation. Thank you for being a thoughtful, kind, and compassionate colleague. - Daisy

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Colleen,

Thank you for being such an amazing colleague & friend. It has been an honor to work with you over the past year and a half! I appreciate your approach, thoughtfulness, and energy! My start at CareerEd would not have been the same without you. I will miss your contagious laugh, care, and FUN! I don't know what I am going to do next year, the rides in the KIA were epic!!!

I'll always remember adding you to the family chat instead of my mother in law. WOOPS, wrong Colleen! LOL

Much love and please stay in touch friend! I will miss seeing you around the office.

-Miguel :)

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People who say you don't find friends at work never met you. I still remember the early days in Student Services when I, the old one, was trying to figure out how to get in with this electric presence that is you, Colleen. I didn't have to try that hard because you welcomed me with open arms, our little group created holidays, you and I created CLASS Academy, us and our husbands went to beer paired meals, and the rest is history. I have loved finding out that we're both Gauchos, loved seeing you marry the love of your life, loved taking your family portraits, and everything in between. You're truly the yin to my yang, the extrovert to my introvert, and I'm eternally grateful that Stanford brought us together...I'm forever grateful to be in your orbit. I can't wait to see what you do next! Love you!

JenMason

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Colleen,

You are an amazing individual, and you have been a gift to all of us.  Your positivity, your smile, your kindness, your joy, your dedication, your infectious laugh, and your genuine care for students are just a few of the wonderful things that we love about you.  It was truly an honor and a privilege to work with you and to see what a difference you made in so many people’s lives.  I know you made a difference in my life.  Your future will be full of many exciting adventures and opportunities, and you are going to continue to make a difference wherever you go, doing whatever you chose to do.  You have left your mark at Stanford, and we are forever grateful for all that you have done.  I feel so fortunate to have worked with you, but I feel even more fortunate to call you, my friend.  Kudos to you, Colleen!  Hugs, Betsy

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Colleen your presence at CareerEd has been such a gift to all of us lucky enough to work with you. Your energy is contagious, your creativity knows know bounds leading to work that is consistently exceptional, you center the student in all that you do, and your care and commitment to everyone around you has definitely made work much more FUN! Your family has been so kind to share you with us all of these years, and I am excited that you can now shine your beautiful light more fully on everyone who is most important to you. I hope this is the beginning of your best chapter yet, and that our paths will cross again soon and often. Warmest wishes, Jennifer

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I’m so sorry that we’re losing you! I remember when I first met you, back when you worked in STS, and how astonished I was by the ambitious professional development infrastructure you had built for that program. I don’t think I've ever seen its equivalent in another department! Since you joined CareerEd, I’ve really enjoyed working with you periodically on projects involving the Meaningful Work Kit, and I was especially grateful when you helped me figure out how to integrate it into our Public Service Careers course. Most of all, I’ve appreciated your collegial and friendly style - it’s always fun to stop and chat with you when we run into each other! I wish you all the best in this next stage of your life! Warmest wishes - Jeff

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We’ve sure had some fun together. I have so appreciated your inspiration, wit, your ability to make me laugh no matter what was happening, your thoughtfulness, the joy you bring to me and others, and all the love you shared with us. You got us through tough times, made the regular time better, and energized the best of times. It was such an honor to get to work with you and now to have you as a friend. You positively impacted many, many, Stanford students’ lives over all your years and your leadership, creativity, motivation, organization, coaching, and passion has made such a difference at Stanford and CareerEd. I’m wishing you much joy and maybe even some moments of calm in the time to come. You will always inspire others and I know wherever you land your time, those people you’re with will be very lucky. I still look forward to reading Colleen’s Covid Calamities so don’t forget to write it.

Much love,

Margot

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I thought about you when I read this children's book, not only because you are remarkable, but also because of the way you make everyone feel proud to be themselves when they're with you!

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It's hard to picture this place without you. You've always brought such a wonderful mix of fun and knowledge to our work, making every day brighter for everyone around you.

I often feel the challenge of constantly switching between the gas pedal and the brake pedal in my heart, feeling that push and pull. I'm really glad that now you’ll have the chance to take a well-deserved break from the day time work, explore your options, and decide when—and how—you’ll hit the gas again.

No matter which path you choose, I know you’ll continue to bring joy and valuable learning experiences to everyone lucky enough to cross paths with the remarkably you!

Wishing you all the best on this new journey. You’ll be missed more than words can say!

Hugs,

Xiaotang

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Old friend, you have been such a huge advocate for student-athletes over the years and we are forever indebted to your service. I'll miss our shared shenanigans and endless laughter whenever we crossed paths. This is certainly not goodbye...more of a "see you later." Congratulations on an iconic Stanford career :) Live laugh love ya!

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Oh my dear squirrel friend. So much of my story here involves you. All of the memories made, shenanigans concocted and selfies taken..... I feel so blessed to have had you as a coworker, and even more blessed to count you among my closest friends. I'm so excited for what lies ahead for you, and all the free time during the day you'll have to deliver boba to Daisy and I. I will miss you my friend, but not too much, because you're stuck with me now. xoxoxoxoxox - Shavon

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Colleen! From meeting over a bollard to career successes, adventures in parenting, (my) disasters in baking, and a PhD in summer camp scheduling, you bring joy and fun to everything you do. You have made such an impact at Stanford and we are all so fortunate to have crossed paths with you. Stanford will not be the same without you. I'm so excited for your next adventure!

Alyssa

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Colleen,

Your joy, creativity, wit, communication skills, quick thinking, and kindness have strengthened and lifted each team, committee, and community that you have joined. Your ability to see people, build community, and find (& make) fun in all that you do brought so much laughter, belonging, and meaning to us.

Thank you for also being the yin to my yang on the team. Not only did we share a job & office, it was as if we somehow shared a brain. It's been amazing to have a teammate who could articulate my thoughts better than me (and type them in the team notes before I could ask you to). Thank you for the "real talks" and for sharing in the work/life journey with me during the past years.

Aye, I miss you already but I am also truly excited for your next adventure with your family. May it be the most wonderful and joyful one yet.

Hugs,

Yuree

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There is a recurring theme in most of your pictures...your genuine smile that shows your wonderful fun-spirited heart. Thank you for being such a great, fun, creative, joyful friend and colleague. We will miss you greatly and appreciate all you have done for Stanford and CareerEd. Please stay connected we will need your joyous spirit when we turn the corner. Fun, RAM, Career Truths/myths, reading children's books, kudos, values.... I honestly can't keep track of all your accomplishments. Thank you for sharing part of you with us. Many hugs amiga.

-Martha Escalera

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Even though you’re not down the hall anymore, I’ve still managed to sneak in some Colleen these past few years. I’m going to miss having you on campus, and seeing that amazing Colleen smile. I still remember the first time we met- you were at STS! And then you were at “BEAM”. And then Synapse. My point is, our paths are just meant to cross, lady, so see you when I see you. Which I know will be soon. XOXO- Danielle

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Colleen, like others have shared here, I truly can’t put into words how much you have impacted my time at CareerEd and what an incredible human you are. You bring such joy, laughter, thoughtfulness and intelligence to all those around you and it will truly be missed from the hallways when you leave! I am so thankful that our paths were able to cross and you took the time to impart some of your knowledge through osmosis of sharing an office. I would have drowned those first few weeks without being able to ask questions out loud to you without even having to turn around 🙏🏼

I hope to continue to stay connected, learn from you, and share parenting stories (and struggles) as you take on this next chapter of family time.

Xx Sarah

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The news of you leaving CareerEd has made me so sad! I can’t believe that you won’t be a part of CareerEd anymore. All your contributions and your impact on CareerEd have been huge. You brought so much joy, fun, and laughter into the workplace, making every day better and more enjoyable. Your positive energy has been a source of motivation, and you have a wondeful ability to bring people together. I have been so lucky to work on committees and projects with you. I have learned so much from you, especially your amazing organization and project management skills. Thank you for everything you’ve done and for being such an incredible colleague and friend. Wishing you all the best in your next chapter, I know you’ll continue to shine wherever you go. Love, Shareen