From Vegas glitz to tribal government: How one communicator found her dream job
Why the senior VP of strategic communications for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians wishes she’d made more mistakes in her younger years.
Kelley Tucky loves what she does. It’s evident in the quiet passion in her voice and her every carefully chosen word. And it’s what’s helped bring her to her self-described dream job.
Thinking back on her younger years, before she even entered the field of communications, that same attitude drove her. “I would say yes to every opportunity that came along because I thought that yes, eventually this is going to mean something,” Tucky said. “Yes, I will use this experience one way or another.”
Thirty years of experience brought Tucky from higher education to the poshest casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, and then to that dream job: vice president of strategic communications for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
“Everything I’ve ever done has led up to this moment,” she said.
Follow Tucky’s winding journey as she dabbled across communications fields and finally found the purpose and meaning she was looking for all along.
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