Born in: Nashville, TN

College attended: Tennessee State University; Middle Tennessee State University

Started working with children in: 2010

Favorite thing about my job: Making a difference in the life of every child by helping him or her improve their speech, language, and communication skills.

3 things I love: fishing, my family, and my black cat named Cleo

Favorite quote: "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." ~Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit