Mayor Durkan announces recipients for the 2018 Mayor’s Arts Awards

Recipients will be honored at the Mayor’s Arts Awards ceremony on Thursday, August 30 at 4 p.m. at the Mural Amphitheatre SEATTLE – Mayor Durkan announced the recipients of the 2018 Mayor’s Arts Awards. The award honorees are Tarik Abdullah, Paula Boggs, Fulgencio Lazo, Jorge Enrique González Pacheco, and Karen P. Thomas. All five recipients… Continue reading Mayor Durkan announces recipients for the 2018 Mayor’s Arts Awards

Paula Boggs: Success is built on life-long relationships

While still Starbucks general counsel, a University of Washington law student emailed me asking for a meeting. Impressed, I agreed, and he came to my office. After exchanging pleasantries, the student asked boldly how he could someday be general counsel of a Fortune 500 company like Starbucks. I was taken aback because as a law… Continue reading Paula Boggs: Success is built on life-long relationships

2017 Goldmark Distinguished Service Award Winners: Paula Boggs and Lucy Lee Helm

Paula Boggs began her career jumping out of airplanes for the U.S. Army and after law school her star rose quickly from the Department of Defense, to the White House Office of Legal Counsel, to corporate positions at Dell Computer, Preston Gates & Ellis and finally as Starbucks General Counsel from 2002-2012. Along the way… Continue reading 2017 Goldmark Distinguished Service Award Winners: Paula Boggs and Lucy Lee Helm

Former Starbucks Executive to Lead Singer, Paula Boggs Followed Her Dream

This former Starbucks attorney stopped at nothing to follow her dreams! Paula Boggs is not only a former Starbucks executive but also an Army Airborne veteran who decided to trade in her incredibly successful career to pursue her passion in music. Boggs started her career in the ARMY ROTC in college, continuing on into the… Continue reading Former Starbucks Executive to Lead Singer, Paula Boggs Followed Her Dream

TEDxBellevueCollege Focuses on Perception

The first TEDxBellevueCollege was held in the Carlson Theatre, and streamed live in simulcast rooms on campus. The event turned its focus to the theme of ‘perception’, with topics ranging from the importance of silence in healing communities, why it’s never too late to quit a successful career in corporate America to start a rock… Continue reading TEDxBellevueCollege Focuses on Perception

A Call To All ‘Brats’

Take a look at us. Today, one of us is CEO of a major restaurant company and the other an Army veteran, lawyer and front woman for a rock band. We were once colleagues and now friends. Combined, we attended 12 different schools in five countries and moved 15 times while we were growing up.… Continue reading A Call To All ‘Brats’

Johns Hopkins University’s ROTC celebrates their 100th year; Paula Boggs honored

Johns Hopkins University became one of the first campuses to establish a Reserve Officers Training Corps with the passage of the National Defense Act of 1916. Since then, ROTC at Johns Hopkins has witnessed the doughboys of the First World War, the dark days of Vietnam, on through the near constant wars of 21st-century America.… Continue reading Johns Hopkins University’s ROTC celebrates their 100th year; Paula Boggs honored

Paula Boggs to be Honored at Sandra Day O’Connor Board Excellence Awards Luncheon

Sandra Day O’Connor Board Excellence Awards Luncheon this October, at which Paula Boggs will be honored for her long and successful career and work to advance gender diversity on boards. This year’s Luncheon will be held on October 21, 2016 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.

In law and music, surmounting new challenges has defined Paula Boggs’ career

Seattle’s Paula Boggs of the Paula Boggs Band always knew her heart was in music, but there were other life lessons to learn first. She earned a law degree but also had a four-year commitment to the US Army to fulfill, which included not only her lawyer duties but also becoming a paratrooper. Once her… Continue reading In law and music, surmounting new challenges has defined Paula Boggs’ career

Financial Times & UPStanding name Paula Boggs to Top 100 ethnic-minority executives

Racial bias remains a serious barrier to the success of many people from black and minority ethnic communities, as our special report shows. The UPstanding Leaders’ List highlights and ranks 100 executives in the US and UK who have reached senior roles in business while also fighting against discrimination and championing ethnic diversity and inclusion… Continue reading Financial Times & UPStanding name Paula Boggs to Top 100 ethnic-minority executives