Running the Baytown Resource and Assistance Center takes a heart full of compassion and understanding, which is exactly what the agency is getting in its new executive director.
Hilda Villalobos took over as the newest executive director of BRAC last month, and has been absorbing all she can from her mentor and former executive director Paulina Carrillo.
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