I am delighted to have the opportunity to be the spotlight. I graduated from University of North Texas in Denton, Texas with a bachelors in Science in Emergency Administration and Planning with a minor in Leadership of Community and Nonprofit Organizations. Also, I received my Associates in Arts from Richland Community College in Dallas, Texas. While in college I interned and later volunteered at American Red Cross for over three years. That that is when my passion grew for volunteering and helping people in need. I later joined the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) they focused on the local city efforts. But I wanted to do more. So I began to focus on Business Continuity courses with Federal Emergency Management Agency known as FEMA.
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Several of my peers asked me why am I doing AmeriCorps now? I gave them a simple answer “because I can” I thought I was rare but there is a large amount of AmeriCorps VISTA’s like me.
Currently, I am volunteering at the Rowlett Chamber Foundation. I assisting the Rowlett Community with disaster relief efforts from the December 26,2015 tornado. I am collaborating with local community leaders to assist the homeowners.
Throughout the years I listen to people stories and realize they are my heroes. I don’t look up to a particular person as my hero I look up to several people as my hero For Example Desmond Blair who can paint portraits with no hands. Come on – I can not draw circle. Blair overcame the odds with no hands. Roger Arliner Young the first black American female to receive a doctorate in Zoology in 1940. Ms. Young journey was not easy but in the end she accomplished her goal. These are the people I look up to.
When I complete AmeriCorps VISTA I will focus my career on organizations assisting people and communities that experience catastrophe, from accidents, war or nature that caused drastic life change or loss of life. This is a passion of I will feed the
Several of my peers asked me why am I doing AmeriCorps now? I gave them a simple answer “because I can” I thought I was rare but there is a large amount of AmeriCorps VISTA’s like me.
Currently, I am volunteering at the Rowlett Chamber Foundation. I assisting the Rowlett Community with disaster relief efforts from the December 26,2015 tornado. I am collaborating with local community leaders to assist the homeowners.
Throughout the years I listen to people stories and realize they are my heroes. I don’t look up to a particular person as my hero I look up to several people as my hero For Example Desmond Blair who can paint portraits with no hands. Come on – I can not draw circle. Blair overcame the odds with no hands. Roger Arliner Young the first black American female to receive a doctorate in Zoology in 1940. Ms. Young journey was not easy but in the end she accomplished her goal. These are the people I look up to.
When I complete AmeriCorps VISTA I will focus my career on organizations assisting people and communities that experience catastrophe, from accidents, war or nature that caused drastic life change or loss of life. This is a passion of I will feed the