{"id":216116,"date":"2024-07-17T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=216116"},"modified":"2024-07-11T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:31:58","slug":"uconn-magazine-theresa-hopkins-staten-energizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/07\/uconn-magazine-theresa-hopkins-staten-energizer\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Theresa Hopkins-Staten, Energizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">When addressing an audience of young women pursuing business careers a few years ago,\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Theresa Hopkins-Staten \u201981 (CLAS), \u201984 JD<\/span>\u00a0advised that \u201copportunity doesn\u2019t always come in pretty packages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u201cOpportunities present themselves in different forms at different times and seasons in your life, and most of them require you to dig deep within yourself,\u201d she says. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s always meant that if God brings me to it, he certainly will give me what\u2019s necessary to get through it and faithfully do so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">Asked a few years ago to take on a newly created role at Eversource Energy, Hopkins-Staten embraced the opportunity and was named vice president for corporate citizenship and equity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u201cThe position was created because of the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Eversource, like many corporations, began to talk about and to think about systemic bias and racism and what it meant for the company, what it meant to its employees,\u201d says Hopkins-Staten, who began her 30-plus-year career there as senior counsel and assistant corporate secretary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">After several years, she was named president of the Eversource Energy Foundation and director of corporate community relations, where her team developed programs to assist customers with limited incomes and invested millions of dollars in Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and New Hampshire on initiatives aligned with the foundation\u2019s focus areas, including community wellness and basic human needs; education, clean energy, and environmental stewardship; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and community, economic, and workforce development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2024\/06\/26\/teresa-hopkins-staten-energizer\/?utm_campaign=magazine_summer24&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">Read on for more.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Eversource exec who is helping to spark the futures of a new generation of UConn students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":216117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2226,2235,102,2306],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1902],"class_list":["post-216116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-clas","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-uconn-voices"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 10:19:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216120,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216116\/revisions\/216120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/216117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216116"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=216116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=216116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}