Her Story
About Aimee
Aimee Bowlin serves as an Engagement Specialist for Permanent Supportive Housing. In this role she delivers group recovery information and provides skills and resources to approximately 200 residents across two properties who have recently left homelessness, enabling them to pursue a sober and productive lifestyle. Prior to her current position she worked as a workforce and career development case manager at a nonprofit organization supporting individuals experiencing unhoused situations or seeking employment to maintain housing. She holds a nursing degree from university and previously worked in med-surg pediatric specialty as well as acute and chronic care at a rehabilitation center. She also worked for Boeing Aircraft and a hospital. Her professional credentials include de-escalation certification training and Berkman Professional Coaching Certification. Aimee draws on her lived experience of incarceration for eleven years on a self-defense charge followed by reentry to build rapport with those she serves. She has mentored women in prison both during and after her own incarceration and continues to support reentry efforts and work with the unhoused population. Her career reflects a commitment to integrity, accountability, transparency, and humility grounded in her faith and personal journey.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Aimee
01What do you attribute your success to?
My success comes from my higher power, which is God, and faith in humanity. My lived experience after incarceration and reentry has built me for the position I'm in now, and it's really lived experience dealing with not having a stable environment, living through abuse, and being exposed to addiction that has put me on this career path.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
You are the only one that limits yourself. This advice has shaped every decision and is the wisdom that becomes the architecture of an entire career.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
First and foremost, you have to be right with yourself. Head and heart alignment are an absolute necessity. When you are right with yourself, then you can step out and make a difference in the world. It does not matter what your career path is, but you have to be right and as close to loving yourself as possible before you can move out and head into your path. Once you have your head and your heart aligned and you are where you need to be, there are no limits, only what you set for yourself.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge in my field is having adequate resources that do not come with judgment. So many people want to help and have opportunity to give back, but they are judging their resource or their time. We've got to drop the judgment and just be kind, because the population I serve could be anyone that hit rock bottom, and we just need to cut the judgment.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity and accountability. Transparency and humility. Those values are not just something you talk about, it is something that you have built your entire professional identity around. You have to live in it. If you are not real in it, people call your bullshit. You have to be real because that's what I expect of other people.
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