according to its website<\/a>) in 2001 before transferring to Dallas when her children were born 11 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019d been wanting to come back to Texas, and for work and personal reasons, I stayed in Chicago, and then once I got pregnant with the twins, I decided, \u2018All right, now we really need to go back,\u2019 closer to family certainly being a big driver of that,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beckstrom still works for PwC, now as an advisory partner in PwC\u2019s Investigations & Forensics practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sit in effectively what we call a risk and regulatory platform,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s risk consulting, so helping our clients manage and deal with event-driven responses. This could be a regulatory investigation, an internal investigation or a regulatory event, and I help our clients respond to that. And I am a CPA, specifically a forensic accountant, but we work with a lot of our technologists in helping clients with AI and technology solutions as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beckstrom also uses her bilingual skills in her profession, and thus, she\u2019s able to work with clients in Latin America. As someone who had the chance to study in Spain and intern in Chile, having a career that involved travel as well as utilizing language and cross-cultural skills was important to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been great,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a way to continue to use my language skills, and I do have a passion for travel, even personally, outside of work, so I really enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alongside her career, Beckstrom has also been involved in her local community (both here in Dallas and when she was in Chicago) and passionate about mentoring others, including women, Latinos and professionals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Enter, Texas Women\u2019s Foundation, which Beckstrom was introduced to by hearing the CEO speak about the foundation\u2019s research.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was super interested in learning more, and PwC was partnering with the foundation, given that they are a research-based foundation that funds grants and other awards to nonprofits throughout the community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Beckstrom attended the foundation\u2019s events and joined the economic leadership council, where she eventually became the co-chairperson, a few years ago. Last year, she was asked to be the vice-chairperson of the audit committee and is now the chairperson of that committee in addition to joining the board of directors. Being on the board now gives Beckstrom access to a governance position, something she didn\u2019t do in her previous roles with the foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPwC continues to support (the foundation), and I just wanted to lean in at a higher level, supporting the work that they do and the research that they do,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have a leadership program. They have giving circles, which really resonate with me and others in the community, as well as the nonprofits that they support. So I think their impact is great throughout not just Dallas, but throughout the state of Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moving forward in her role, Beckstrom aims to learn more about the foundation and how she can support it as well as bring her experience from other boards and as a Texas Latina to the table.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Texas Women\u2019s Foundation will host its 40th annual luncheon<\/a> at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 14 at the Omni Dallas Hotel in Downtown with decorated actor Christine Baranski as the keynote speaker. The event is co-chaired by a group that includes two more East Dallas neighbors \u2014 Gail Griswold and Brenda Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanessa Salinas Beckstrom. Photo courtesy of Texas Women\u2019s Foundation. Lakewood neighbor Vanessa Salinas Beckstrom joined Texas Women\u2019s Foundation…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-195961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115138615319132000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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