SNAPSHOTS

Favorite midnight snack: Chips

Music to dance to: 80s and 90s music

Favorite movie: When Harry Met Sally

Favorite color: Red

Flying or super strength: Flying

ZOOMING IN

Q: How long have you worked with the school? Did you work anywhere else as a counselor before?

A: “I have been here for 12 years, and I was a teacher at another school in Arkansas.”

Q: Why did you choose to be a counselor?

A: “I love to help students figure out their next part of their lives.”

Q: What type of education or degree did you have to get to be a counselor?

A: “You have to have a masters in school counseling, so you get a bachelors degree in college and then you back and get a masters degree in school counseling.”

Q: What is the most difficult thing about your job?

A: “The hardest part of my job is to talk to kids that are just in bad situations, whether they don’t have a good home life or they’re homeless or they’re being abused. Probably hearing sad stories from my students is probably the hardest thing of my job because I can’t help but I can’t fix it.”

Q: What are your future plans?

A: “I just plan to stay here as a counselor. I am married and have two kids…so just to be involved in my kids life and activities and to watch them grow up here in this community.”

Q: What is your favorite thing about being a counselor?

A: “My favorite thing about being a counselor is talking to kids about their dreams and about what they want to do after high school.”

Q: Who is one person you look up to and why?

A: “My father because he came from very little and [he is] 70 years old and and he is a doctor in Arkansas. He’s a hard worker and he has shown me what hard work can lead to.”