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Vello Restaurant and Bar, 404 Harvard St.
After changing hands earlier this year, Brothers Restaurant is getting a new name and menu.
The JFK Crossing staple, known for its breakfast and brunch offerings, will now be called Vello Restaurant and Bar. The owners originally planned to keep the Brothers name, but wanted something that would reflect the restaurant’s new Latin-leaning theme, attorney Frank Ravinal told the Select Board last week.
Over four years, 1951 Coffee has trained 225 refugees from 29 countries, and aims to educate its customers about the challenges refugees and asylees face in seeking, attaining and sustaining employment while adapting to their new homes. Photo (from 2017): Angelica Ekeke
2410 Channing Way (between Dana Street and Telegraph Avenue), Berkeley
Four years ago, in January 2017, just days after Berkeley’s 1951 Coffee Company opened its Channing Avenue cafe staffed entirely by refugees, President Trump enacted his travel ban barring immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries and suspending the entire refugee resettlement program. Doug Hewitt, 1951 Coffee’s co-founder and CEO, recognized a bright side to that calamitous decision.
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Policygenius Welcomes Megan Pittman as Vice President of People
Stitch Fix veteran joins growing Policygenius leadership team
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NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Financial services leader
Policygenius announced today the hiring of Megan Pittman as the company s Vice President of People. Pittman will oversee the company s human-resources related functions including people operations, learning and development, and employee experience.
Pittman brings nearly 20 years of experience managing people-related functions to Policygenius. Most recently, Pittman was the Senior Global Director of Human Resource Business Partners and High Volume Recruiting at Stitch Fix, where she guided the company s COVID-19 response and led a team of business partners that supported more than 9,000 distributed employees across the U.S. and U.K. Before that, Pittman served as Director of People at biotech startup Memphis Meats, where she spearheaded the human resourc
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