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Archbishop Mitty High School Alumni Interview! Please follow the link below to access the entire article!

Alumni Spotlight:
The Cost of Courage
Kelly Estes '08

Alumna Kelly Estes ’08 is not only a college graduate and working professional, but also an accomplished author, documentary producer and founder of her own non-profit organization. 
Ever since deciding in high school at Archbishop Mitty to detail her uncles' stories as veterans of World War II, Kelly's life changed forever.
Click HERE to read about Kelly's journey detailing the cost of the courage...

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When Kelly Estes ’12 was a freshman, she became one of the youngest-ever commissioners on the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission. Since then she has begun working with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, with efforts that yielded a county task force. And during her senior year, she published a novel, The Cost of Courage (Valor Media, 2012), that draws on her uncles’ tragic experiences in World War II: One was shot down over Germany but survived as a POW; his brother was part of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo but didn’t live to tell his own story. Estes’ fictional account, as well as her work with veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq, brought her back to campus to speak and work with students in Don Riccomini’s literature course on the theme “War, Individuals, State.” As Riccomini notes, “The emotional reality of Kelly’s experience with veterans helped the students understand that the consequences of doing the right thing make life morally meaningful, but they can also come at a great personal and existential cost.” 

San Jose Mercury News - November 11, 2006

"Kelly Estes owns a beaming smile, green eyes that make contact, a gift for speaking in public and a black belt in karate. She's interested in becoming a lawyer, but that would be a frustrating loss for broadcast journalism. Unlike many American youths, she was more than a little interested in her relatives who had served in World War II. She had already written a paper about her Uncle Donald for a class at Archbiship Mitty High School. She had no plans for continuing the story, but that changed at a community picnic sponsored at San Jose's Kelley Park. The park houses the Digital Clubhouse Network, a non-profit that recruits and trains young people to tell the stories of older Americans, especially Veterans. Kelly learned that they had produced a video of Jimmy Doolittle, who was born up the road in Alameda. "Well", she told them, "I had an uncle in that raid too, only he didn't come back."

- Joe Rodriguez,

  San Jose Mercury News,

  Veterans Day 2006