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“I Have Become the Person I Was Meant to Be”
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Helena Shanks, ‘12, co-owner of River Rock Coffee and Tea, a fair-trade coffeehouse in St. Peter and Mankato, MN, on her family background and path from the Fargo-Moorhead area to Gustavus; majoring (for a time, uncertainly) in Chemistry; what she learned while working as an employee at River Rock both before and after graduation; how and why she eventually transitioned from employee to co-owner with two other women (founder Tamika Bertram and Katie Aho); the responsibilities of ownership and how the ownership team functions; how being an owner has changed her; the alignment of her values and River Rock’s; and her case for Gustavus.
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