Decades before I would serve on the Board for the Southern Center of Human Rights, my family and I lived in a rough neighborhood. My mom was a single parent who as a social worker worked around the clock – sometimes two or three jobs at a time to take care of us. But that didn’t stop her from making time to take my brother, sister and I to volunteer at the foster care center in our neighborhood each week. It wasn’t long before my mom began working at the center, putting in long hours and going above and beyond to place kids in safe homes, helping thousands of kids over the years.
Seeing my mother dedicate her life to helping others reinforced my desire to use my skills to give people a second chance. My mom helped instill in my siblings and me that despite the financial challenges we faced, we could still use our knowledge and time to help others.
What started with weekly volunteer hours at the foster care center led to me taking on a bigger role volunteering, teaching math, science and social studies to at-risk youth and tutoring finance to underprivileged highschool students across the city of Atlanta. These experiences were ways for me to leverage the finance skills I learned in my college and MBA programs to do good for people in my community. It’s what also led me to apply for a nonprofit board seat through PwC’s Skills for Society.
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