I am a mother of two children, a 9-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter. I began my educational career with the intention of becoming a nurse. After working in the medical field for 4 years with companies like Lutheran Senior Services, Maxim Healthcare, and the Women's Clinic of Kansas City, I decided to further develop my business skills and finish my Business Administration, Human Resource Management degree with Missouri College in 2009. During this time, I held a variety of positions with non-profit organizations, The St. Louis Family Justice Center and The St. Patrick Center providing life transforming services to those in the St. Louis communities and surrounding areas. I enjoy working with people from a variety of backgrounds and pushing forward missions that provide public access to sustainable housing, employment, and healthcare. Thereafter, I became employed with Rent-A-Center/Acceptance Now as a sales manager in Illinois, Florida, and Missouri, and advanced into a collection’s supervisor. In these positions, I focused on improving the quality of life of our customers through the services and products we had to offer. I was so effective in this role for my team and our customers that my performance won me +1 a trip to the Bahamas for a week, a very honorable 2015 memory. I earned a place in my Belleville, Illinois district in the Benefits Plus contest that year and I graduated from Southwestern Illinois College with my degree in Human Services. In 2020, I returned to the non-profit industry with the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Save Our Sons program where it has been a great experience. As the Senior Job Developer and a Missouri Association for Workforce Development (MAWD) and a National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) member, I have utilized my skills, professional talent, knowledge, experience, passion, drive, and personality to impact the team and program's development, expansion, create and maintain business, and community partnerships, and clients we serve. From retail to non-profit, I can lead with a winning spirit, act with a servant's heart, and treat others how I want to be treated while providing underserved communities access to the resources that economically secure and empower them to reach and maintain self-sufficiency Since the pandemic, I have become a home inspector creating my own business Major Home Inspections LLC and is now an InterNACHI and Women’s Chapter member. With my business I plan to merge into the real estate industry continuing to support those in disadvantaged communities and focus on our homelessness challenge. My overall education, employment, and motherhood experience has molded me into what I am today, and I plan to remain focused on making a better world for us and those around us through social impact and workforce development.
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