Torres-Recto, Kate, 1954-

Born in the Philippines in 1954 , Kate Torres Recto, grew up pampered as the youngest of four children and as the daughter of an aristocratic family. She recalls having maids and drivers, and she describes her mother's sense of fashion. But she also remembers how her parents raised her and her siblings to respect their elders, to be kind, and to be compassionate. In turn, as Kate raised her six children mostly as a single mother, she, too, instilled those values in them. After supporting her growing family as an entrepreneur, Kate currently runs three businesses: she is a dealer in residential and commercial solar power; she has a telecommunications and cybersecurity business, and she is the founder/owner of Kate's Coffee. She discusses her involvement in Asian American Pacific Islander philanthropic and political causes as well as her family, her businesses, and her life in Las Vegas since 1992.