at long beach polytechnic high, she's a standout on the dance team, the polleettes.all, leggy blond easily attracts attention. a photographer takes notice and at 16, a modeling career launches. >> i did everything. anything anybody paid me -- no, i'm just kidding. i did, you know, fashion, i did shows, i did editorial, catalog, advertisement, commercial, i did all there was to do. >> reporter: eventually, her breezy california girl good looks land her on the cover of "seventeen" magazine, a star on the rise, but supermodel? not so much. >> nobody knew who i was. you know, i wasn't known around the world. >> jcpenney. >> yeah, i did jcpenney, exactly. i was like may company and nordstrom's. everybody who got the catalog knew me. i mean, they knew me in seattle, san francisco. southern california. like, i was every day, every day, i was in the papers every day in los angeles. >> she gets some tv spots too. like this one, for coke. >> she got my message. >> i see i'm not the only one. >> the commercials are enough to give her the message. she wants more. >> i went into

i went to polytechnic high school which no longer exists. so, i stand here before you as one of juliet's mentors. she is a young woman. when i was working as director of communications at the urban habitat, you know, at the time carl anthony was the executive director and president of earth island institute with david brauer. and juliet was working on her

i went to polytechnic high school which no longer exists. so, i stand here before you as one of juliet's mentors. she is a young woman. when i was working as director of communications at the urban habitat, you know, at the time carl anthony was the executive director and president of earth island institute with david brauer. and juliet was working on her mba at san francisco state, and i was asked to sit in on the interview when she came to apply for a job as carl's assistant. basically, a very low-level job. but what i was i'd impressed by was shear passion and her commitment and her caring for community and for people, marginalized people of every color. and i sat through that interview. and when she walked out of the room, we had a flood of people from san francisco state, from university of california, from stanford who really wanted to work as an assistant to carl anthony who was then president of and chair of the urban habitat which was the oldest environmental justice organization in the country. i was honored and excited, and carl a