This month,
Diabloâs editors are dreaming of a party featuring East Bay musicians, who had a great night at this yearâs Grammy Awards, as well as an accomplished journalist and philanthropist from across the pond and a local nurse who collected a nice payday on a game show.
Womenâs Issues
Due to COVID-19, the annual East Bay Womenâs Conference, sponsored by the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce, has been reimagined as a five-part virtual speaker series with an â¨impressive lineup of international guests. The May speaker will be â¨British news anchor
Isha Sesay, who will discuss her career in journalism, as well as Women Everywhere Can Lead, the nonprofit organization she founded in her native Sierra Leone with the goal of empowering teenage girls to become Africaâs next generation of dynamic leaders.
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DeShae Alcorn is an intensive care unit nurse at San Ramon Regional Medical Center. (John Fleenor/ABC)
SAN RAMON, CA A San Ramon Regional Medical Center nurse won big on ABC s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
DeShae Alcorn sat in the hot seat across from host Jimmy Kimmel and reached a prize of $32,000 with a little help from her dad, who sat a short distance away. Alcorn appeared on the game show on the March 7 episode of this season, along with a slew of frontline workers and celebrity contestants raising money for charity, said hospital spokesperson Krista Deans in an email.
DeShae Alcorn, RN, BSN, who works as an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at San Ramon Regional Medical Center, is appearing on the upcoming episode of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" set to air this Sunday (March 7).