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"Better make that your profession." my dad would tease. So I did. The theater was proving too high stakes for my blood, so I majored in Communication and immersed myself in the art of crafting messages. Marketing, advertising, public relations, propaganda, spin! I ate it all up. 

Undergrad went by way too fast, but not before the Offices of Student Affairs sunk their claws in me. If I wasn't in the classroom, I was in the Student Leadership office, the Office for Student Volunteerism, or International Student Affairs. Here I learned the most formidable lesson of my life: As a communication specialist in education, you have the opportunity to promote and influence the development of human lives. 

That is what I wanted. 

I did not become an actor. I did become a teacher. I have spent over 11 years in the classroom learning and feeling the meaning of this title. 

As I look forward to the next 25 years and the opportunity to apply this knowledge in an administrative context, I am encouraged and empowered by my predecessors. Those who set me on a course to promote and influence human life, just as they had to mine so many years before.