Leaving corporate America as a claims manager to work for a law office that specialized in civil rights work was the ultimate career change for me. My work as an educational monitor and recently being elected as District 34 State Representative put the final icing on my career aspirations. I now have a wide range of people to serve.
When I worked with a parent whose child had been recommended for expulsion from school. She called me after the hearing, crying and thanking me for helping to keep her child in school.
To attend law school.
The Ivy Foundation of Little Rock. Its mission is to provide scholarships, health, community service, education and cultural programs for youth, the aged, physically or mentally impaired and economically disadvantaged individuals.
The opportunity to assist a caller with an obstacle that they are facing.
The opportunity to work for a brilliant civil rights attorney. John W. Walker was a tireless fighter for human and civil rights. Our world would be a better place if there were more people like him.
My husband Horace, my family members, my church family and friends.
To become more involved with my sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha and to run for public office — first the Little Rock School District Board of Education and recently for District 34 State Representative of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
It is a wonderful feeling knowing you have assisted someone in overcoming obstacles in their daily lives.
