Bridges Cover: Businesswoman CeCe Baptiste weaves Cree values into finance world – County Weekly News

There are people who go to work, do their job, and then go home. CeCe Baptiste is not one of them.

August 2, 2019

CeCe Baptiste remembers being incredibly hungry.

She used to watch her high school classmates eat their lunches at school with a gnawing sensation in her stomach and a longing in her eyes. At 15, she rarely had money to buy food. Baptiste was living with an older cousin but was essentially out on her own, working and going to school.

Despite the constant pangs, there was a deeper hunger inside her to finish high school so that she could go to university.

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