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Veronica Arteaga: BlessedVeronica Arteaga: Blessed

Veronica Arteaga (Crown ’03, psychology and sociology) is not only the mother of four children under 4—three of them former foster kids—but she is also chief program officer for a nonprofit that provides services from foster care and adoption programs to early intervention care for kids with disabilities.

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