December 1999.....We regret to inform you that you will not be accepted into Washington State University for the Fall of 2000.....Those words hurt. I was embarrassed, sad, confused, angry, just outright disappointed in myself.Some of you may know the story of my journey of getting INTO college.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous?

Life growing up was no silver spoon. Raised in a single parent household, bullied in middle school, first generation college graduate, exposed to adults in my life abusing drugs and there I was, a little girl who had no dreams in sight. In fact, I never had a dream. I’m one of those individuals who had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. It has taken A LOT of jobs for me to filter through.