Her Story
About Promise
I started out working in a high school in Indiana over 10 years ago, working with young people that were essentially in crisis in a high school setting. From there, I moved to Tennessee to support my mom and my disabled brother, who were needing some extra support. I started working at a prison and got to work closely with people that were going through crisis due to incarceration or even mental health challenges that were actively incarcerated and not able to get the care and the support that they needed. From there, I was able to work as a 911 Dispatcher, getting more exposure to ongoing crisis situations and being a first responder. Then I moved into tech. I was recruited to work for Lyft, the rideshare service, at their headquarters, supporting in crisis management there, working in trust and safety, dealing with critical and escalated situations. From there, I've been a manager for Allstate as a servant and supporting in risk. I've gotten my start working at a high school, but then I've just progressively moved around to be able to grow my skill set and advance in my career. I hold a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, and I just completed a graduate program as a student pursuing a degree for public policy analysis. The public policy analysis degree is centered around advocacy and public policy writing for underserved communities.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Promise
01What do you attribute your success to?
Working at a high school taught me a lot about myself, and I had a very unique upbringing. I got emancipated when I was young. There were things that took place in my childhood that I didn't agree with, and things that I had no control over, but once I got to a place of understanding and maturing and being able to kind of steer my own destiny, that is where that drive was birthed. I wanted to make sure that I was going to be successful no matter what I came from and what I went through, and making sure that my start was not going to be the way that I finished. I wanted to make sure that when I was able to start my own family, that I could produce a sense of healthy people from my household, and productive citizens, and people that could look back on their childhood and be proud of it. Getting to a place of wanting to fix things that took place in my childhood and make sure that I am breaking some of those generational curses is what has been driving my motivation to be the best version of myself for not only myself, but for the people around me, and the people that will one day call me mom.
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