What’s been happening:

I am reconnecting with old friends and connecting with new ones. I am a full time Realtor, through which I offer real estate-related services to buyers, sellers, and renters of real property and which I enjoy. I am also working toward achieving an M.A. in Communication Studies at an Arizona State University campus. My work as a Realtor informs my understanding of communication principles, thereby helping me comprehend content of my degree program more precisely, and likewise, learning identified communication principles helps me communicate with more integrity in my real estate-related work. My work and education are significant to me, as I begun both as I was emerging from a "long period" of "serious illness." I am regarded as disabled, one who may never work, and I am working relatively regularly. By making this step, I am indirectly serving the population of disabled persons who work, as I encounter the internal and external barriers to succeeding unique to this population and work through them. I serve on an advisory committee, what's known as Arizona's Medicaid Infrastructure Grant Advisory Committee, where I offer feedback regarding initiatives and projects created to build or enhance existing infrastructure that supports individuals with disabilities to secure and sustain competitive employment from the perspective of a disabled person who returned to work.