Maria Gonzalez
Class: 2011
Graduated with a French major in 2011
Maria was hired by Fetzer Vineyards, a winery facility located in Hopland, CA, as a Bilingual Human Resources Specialist. There, she is responsible for a variety of HR related activities including but not limited to: benefit administration, HRIS, recruiting, employee training and development, leave of absence administration, employee relations, bilingual support and more. Although the languages she practices the most at work are English and Spanish, she strongly believes her French degree had a strong influence in landing her the HR position when she graduated. French is still part of her regular life, as she still fondly remembers her French lessons and still finds herself madly in love with French culture, literature, and cinema, and is working very hard to make her dream of visiting France for the first time come true.