Fort Lauderdale, Florida

After my first job working as a case manager at a homeless shelter, I knew I wanted to be an advocate. This is what led me to law school. However, after working in a local Domestic Violence Unit as a legal intern, I began to question if the legal field was for me and I left law school to get a Master's degree in Family Therapy. It was while running mandated group therapy programs that, for the first time, I had a vision of the difference I could make as an attorney and returned to law school.

Because of the path I took to law school, going back to school after I already had a mortgage, husband and a full-time job, I did not have the time to volunteer that many of my peers had. Luckily, I received several fellowships which allowed me to earn a minimal income while carrying out public service work. I am eternally grateful for these fellowships and the opportunities they afforded me to gain experience and serve my community.

Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law by Michael Lief contains educational closing arguments on social history while also providing the opportunity to learn from the best on argument style; The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown was a great adventure that integrated fact and fiction and challenged thoughts on religion and history; Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger isolates an individual's search for meaning, and by voicing his journey he found relief.

Mary J.Blige, Bob Marley and Fugees are some of the artists that comprise the soundtrack of my life. Also: Mos Def, Guru, any other intelligent/thought provoking hip-hop. On another note: Indigo Girls and Grateful Dead - every time I hear them I'm taken back to some of my best memories of my teen years.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson (from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles)

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein