A Heart for Service

My love language is Acts of Service. As far back as I can remember, I have always found joy is serving and helping others. In high school I logged almost twice the necessary community service hours for National Honor Society. In my freshman year of college, I connected with the campus Community Outreach club. After making 150 brown bag lunches and stuffing them into back packs to distribute homeless people on Lower Wacker in Chicago, I had found my place on campus. My sophomore year I was co-chair of the Community Outreach club organizing monthly dinners for the Women's Crisis Shelter and weekly breakfast and games with local kids at Saturday Morning Club on the playground. To me, serving is a way to bring people together and see others experience connection with one another, and that brings me tremendous joy.

My time leading the Community Outreach club combined with my campus job in the cafeteria gave me a very unique skill set: planning and serving food for large events. I have a knack for calculating exactly how much chili, hotdogs, pizza, taco bar, you name it that a group will eat. I often say I speak the love language Acts of Service with a dialect of food.

But beyond cooking, my heart is usually at home in the background of a large events volunteering in some way. In recent years have served and led in PTO at my kids' elementary school, Den mother for Cub Scouts, and Elmbrook's Super Nights for middle schoolers. Creating significant memories for kids makes volunteering in these organizations such a great experience- and I love the friendships that have been made with the other families along the way!

When I tried to think of a photo to use for my campaign, I knew a headshot of me in a power suit standing next to some building in the Third Ward would never work. Because nobody would recognize me. The truth is, the best pictures of me and usually behind a table at a bake sale or selling raffle tickets or setting up a Teacher Appreciation lunch, because those moments are when I am most in my element.

My heart and passion is in serving others, and if elected to the Waukesha School Board, that is the intention that I would bring: to serve our community. I would appreciate your vote on April 1st, 2025.