Get To Know Me
Well, what can I say about me? Highlands County, Avon Park, in particular, has always been my home base, but from the age of five, I’ve had the opportunity to travel and live in different parts of the world. Most people, when they hear that, assume that I’m a military brat. I am actually not a military brat at all. My dad was in the entertainment business. My sisters and I traveled with him. I love the fact that I grew up immersed in different cultures. It gave me a different outlook on life and an open mind to growth and diversity. I have lived and visited over eight different countries. My favorite was Paris. When I wasn’t traveling I was going to school and being raised by my mother with my two sisters in Avon Park, Florida. For the last 10 years, I have been working with nonprofit organizations. I have fallen in love with community work and helping to promote positive change, especially among youth and young teens. As a mother of two, it fills my heart to know that there are people out there that care about influencing our future generations in the most positive way. This is not always an easy task. I’m very excited about this new chapter in my life where I get to work with HRHN and the iMAD program.
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“A mistake repeated more than once is a desicion.” -Paulo Coelho
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Hello my name is MJ, also known as Mary Jane, and I am the newest member of the iMAD team. I am so excited about getting to equip children with the tools they will need to not only survive but thrive.
Being born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida has always given me an outside perspective from the small city lifestyle. I still have to get use to the fact that I’ll always run into someone I know when I go to any store in Highlands County. But that isn’t a bad thing. I’ve used that as an opportunity to foster some great friendships and meet many wonderful people who live here.
As a Central-Florida native, I have always had a strong desire to empower people through providing knowledge and opportunities for growth. Part of this comes from having a family who was always embroiled in education. My mother was a teacher and my stepfather was a principal in Polk County throughout my childhood. My father was a college professor and my older sister is dedicated to providing higher education opportunities to the youth of Tennessee through her work with the Tennessee Higher Education Consortium.
