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What New Orleans neighborhood do you live in? / Where did you grow up?

I live in Mid-City and my family is from New Orleans.

Describe your job to us!

I perform employee in-reach and my focus is on employee benefits while acting as a bridge between their expectations and outside agencies/vendors.  Before this I performed homeless outreach and helped navigate people to the programs and services that best match their needs. 

Tell us about your career path.

My career path always involved working with the public, and I am enjoying working for the benefit of others.

What aspects of your job do you enjoy the most?

I am expected to meet needs and expectations whenever they develop.  My skillset requires anticipation, communication, coordination, cooperation, and follow-through.  I carry this over to my involvement with community organizations, as I take active leadership roles in the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization (MCNO), Rotary Club of Mid-City New Orleans, and the 1^st District Police Community Advisory Board (PCAB).

What challenges do you find to be the greatest in your role?

Interpersonal communication is the most challenging.  There is a solution to every problem.  Therefore, I need to be able to assess and respond to strengths and weaknesses in every situation, and this includes varying personality profiles. 

What is your favorite thing about New Orleans?

Being from, and a part of, one of the most unique and culturally significant places in the world.  New Orleanians, and South Louisianians in general, are lucky to share in something that transcends beyond surface level cultural touchstones, such as food and music.  It has a rhythm, to be sure, which acts as a cadence to the creative spirit that everyone is welcomed to become a part of.  The proof is the social/marching clubs, the Carnival krewes, the costumes and tomfoolery of locals in celebration, etc.  Not many places have all of what we take for granted.