Barbara Sommer Feigin is the author of "My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom". As a toddler, Barbara and her parents escaped Nazi Germany by way of Russian and Japan, later to land in Seattle. Barbara joined us in January to share about her youth in Seattle and Chehalis, then onto college at Whitman. In this second visit, Barbara tells of her dreams to attend Harvard, at a time when such a goal was very limited to women. Barbara attended Radcliff Graduate, receiving a one-year certification, sustaining a dream to work in advertising. Hers is a story of setting out what she wanted, which included being the first woman to get maternity leave and return to her work. Her dreams did take her to executive heights in the realm of advertising beginning in the 1960s, her craft evolving over 3 decades.
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