>> I like being an advocate for people with disabilities, and I like going and just meetings
in the class [Inaudible] and just being able to tell them, you know, I've been where they're at,
and I know it may be a challenge to have a disability, but it's not a secret.
You know, people can come out the other side of it, and, you know, go to college.
Like that was my dream, that's what I wanted to do, and so I think that's the best part
of my job, being able to help people in whatever way I can through advocacy or writing grants,
getting the money-tell them about writing grants .
You're lucky, if you submit, then you're lucky to get one, so there's a great chance
of [Inaudible] even though you can write the best one possible, but,
you know, that's part for the course.
It's not something I thought I was going to do when I graduated from [Inaudible]
but it' an opportunity that kind and opened up because I was always involved in [Inaudible]
and I used to think I need to work here, and they came up with the idea
because they hadn't had somebody write grants.
I came on seven, 2007, so they were very excited that somebody was going to be focused on doing
that kind of work, Reduction, and being able to tell the story in a way
that pulls people's heart's strings, which is not always the easiest to do because people,
you know, people [Inaudible] empathize with our population and kind of feel sorry
for our [Inaudible] and we don't want people to feel sorry for them,
but we want to tell our story in a convincing enough way that, you know,
it can benefit both sides because kids or even adults, I can say for myself,
with disabilities don't want pity.
So anyway we can pull out strings just a little bit and be able to help them out.
But, yeah, it's-because you can think, you know, you wrote the best proposal in the world,
and you know, it's a very competitive field out there, right now;
so if people are only accepting ten applications and they have their ten, I mean,
you did what you could do, but it's a matter of choice, basically it's what it boils down to.