{"id":104218,"date":"2019-11-20T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=435342"},"modified":"2019-11-20T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:01:42","slug":"returning-to-taos-pueblo-for-the-birth-of-a-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/returning-to-taos-pueblo-for-the-birth-of-a-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to Taos Pueblo for the birth of a son"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019d return to Taos Pueblo and fall in love with the land more and more.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s purpose: to serve indigenous communities. What wasn\u2019t as clear was how he\u2019d do that.<\/p>\n

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>\n

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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\u2019s datacenters. Adonis took interest in the project because he observed a genuine interest in the company to create meaningful and long-term impact\u2014something<\/span> that at the time was counterintuitive to his perspective of corporate America.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

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>\n

\u201cI see myself building on top of all of this work to continue to serve indigenous peoples,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019d return to Taos Pueblo and fall in love with the land more and more. But spending the school year elsewhere gave him a different perspective when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[134,50],"class_list":["post-104218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-microsoft-life","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}