Maintaining A Positive Outlook, with Dziesma Teteris

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dziesma Teteris is the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Paralegal (Boston University, MA). Holds two associate degrees in Political Science/Western World Studies (Ventura College, CA); B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Global Peace and Security (UCSB, CA); M.B.A. (University of Phoenix, AZ); and J.D. (Colleges of Law, CA). </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dziesma Teteris is passionate about performing arts and enjoys public speaking. She volunteers at local Latvian communities and utilizes her knowledge and skills to promote Latvian culture. She has served on the Board of Directors for several non-for-profit organizations. Dziesma is certain that any change presents a new opportunity, during the pandemic she founded a global network for reading Latvian playwrights’ works and is one of the founders and a director for the World Association of Latvian Amateur Theatres. She is also a recipient of several scholarships, recognitions, and honorary volunteer awards from the World Federation of Free Latvians, American Latvian Association, and Southern California Latvian Association amongst others. Dziesma is very dynamic and credits her success to her positive outlook, flexibility at times of change, and her passion for life-long learning.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dziesma Teteris speaks fluent English, Latvian, and Russian.</span></p> <p><strong>What You Will Learn:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How growing up in the Soviet Union during the Cold War impacted Dziesma’s ability to say no</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why it’s important to do one thing every day to make things better for someone else</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Dziesma managed to release the Soviet ideologies that she grew up with</span></li> <li style="font-w