{"id":139158,"date":"2022-01-22T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=139158"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:27:51","slug":"uccs-magic-gives-alum-confidence-to-defy-the-odds-evelyn-hernandez-sullivan-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=139158","title":{"rendered":"UCCS \u2018magic\u2019 gives alum confidence to defy the odds | Evelyn Hernandez-Sullivan \u201986"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/537488441?h=240667c7c0&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evelyn Hernandez-Sullivan, a 1986 graduate of UCCS and a 1989 CU Boulder Law alumna, retired in 2016 after 19 years serving El Paso County as a law clerk and magistrate judge. It was a career that she couldn\u2019t envision growing up as a first-generation Mexican American. Hernandez-Sullivan\u2019s parents had no formal education, and her traditional upbringing did not emphasize education for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was pretty much on my own,\u201d she said. But that changed when she came to UCCS as a law student. \u201cI never really thought I\u2019d get that opportunity. UCCS was so incredibly welcoming. The professors that I had there were amazing. I remember them all fondly to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hernandez-Sullivan\u2019s experience at UCCS stayed with her even as her son was preparing to choose a school of his own. After visiting several prestigious private schools, they took a final visit to UCCS. When she asked her son what he thought about the visit, he noted that UCCS had the feel of a private school in a public setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hernandez-Sullivan calls it magic. \u201cWhat they have had, that magic they had when I was there, they still have it. And that\u2019s magic I feel everyone should get a chance to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That magic gave Hernandez-Sullivan the confidence to go further than she ever imagined. \u201cIt helped me take a risk. It helped me take the next step,\u201d she said. \u201cIf it hadn\u2019t been for UCCS, I would never be where I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In retirement, Hernandez-Sullivan helps families through the work of her Child Smart Mediation Program, a program that gives children meaningful input during a separation or divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evelyn Hernandez-Sullivan is a distinguished alumnus who delivered the 2009 commencement keynote speech. <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.uccs.edu\/news\/distinguished\">View a list of other notable alumni here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Evelyn Hernandez-Sullivan, a 1986 graduate of UCCS, retired in 2016 after 19 years serving El Paso County as a law clerk and magistrate judge. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=139158\" title=\"UCCS \u2018magic\u2019 gives alum confidence to defy the odds | Evelyn Hernandez-Sullivan \u201986\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":140011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,427,22],"tags":[370,369,86,437],"class_list":["post-139158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-alumni-stories","category-video","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-success","tag-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sullivan.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-Acu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142748,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139158\/revisions\/142748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}