Five Years

Summer 2017-2021

FIVE YEARS AGO----I decided to quit my store maintenance job of almost two years and wanted to take a chance with being involved on the speakers network. It has been such an incredible experience for me to educate individuals with disabilities about issues that affect our everyday lives and getting that message of hope out there, that they can accomplish many of their dreams. I am grateful for the confidence boost this experience has given me over the past five years and learning how to be more comfortable when it comes to talking in front of large groups. I have no legitimate plans to stop advocating for the disability community and hoping to continue this platform of mine where I can keep getting my voice heard, rather than being silenced from people. It's almost hard to believe five years has come and gone so quickly.. but I am very certain there are only more people to educate about issues that need to be addressed, which if you ask me is not much of an understatement. It has been such a delightful experience to be asked to come back to not only but a few disability conferences or workshops to teach about these topics that we need to bring to the table. How did these many years arrive and leave so quickly?? It has been such an amazing journey for me to take on with my fellow colleagues and learn more about what we can do to spread awareness about how we can make the disability community a better place than it is. 

(To Be Continued)