Humans supporting Humans with Acceptance, Love, and Shared Wisdom under the Transformative Energy of the Divine Feminine.
Elizabeth D.
Elizabeth’s spirit for social work started in Elementary School and this dedication progressed on throughout her educational career. While in college, she volunteered with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and since then, her interest in mentorship has blossomed into a wide and varied calling. For almost two decades now, Elizabeth has woven her passion for social justice into her everyday life. This devotion is evidenced by her education, her time in the US Army, her dedication as a Foster Parent, and her current graduate studies in Criminology and Criminal Justice. While on Active Duty from 2006 to 2014, Elizabeth deployed three times and served as Platoon Leader, Company Commander, and Partnership Chief. Today, she serves as a Major in the US Army Reserve. Five years ago, she followed her heart and became a Licensed Foster Parent. This part of Elizabeth’s life provides a rich opportunity to support children and families in her local community. As a well-informed advocate, Elizabeth identifies the essential and necessary shifts required to make a difference for families in need. From her perspective as a Foster Parent, she advocates for support for all involved as a necessity- not a luxury- and co-parenting with these families as they work to reinstate custodial rights is one of her favorite aspects of the vocation. Out of a genuine desire to maintain a level of connection and care, she is still in touch with many of the families that she has helped and to date, along with her ex-partner, she has fostered fourteen children. One of her biggest accomplishments has been becoming a parent. Elizabeth has adopted three children that she has been lucky enough to foster. As a single mom, times - especially bedtimes, bath times, and dinner times - can get pretty crazy! While currently in graduate school, she works as a security and risk management consultant and court-qualified expert. Elizabeth made the decision to go back to graduate school and when finished with her thesis, she plans to carry on with her studies and apply for the Ph.D. program in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. After her dissertation is complete, Elizabeth plans to continue the writing and hopes to pen new and innovative governmental policies that will reflect more compassion and clinical assessment for addressing the rehabilitation and recidivism within our penal systems. Elizabeth is grateful to be involved in the Soul-to-Sisterhood project and hopes that by sharing her story, she offers others an option to learn from her life-lessons. She wants people to feel empowered and independent in their choices to follow their own paths, whatever those paths may be. Through her work, she hopes to inspire us all to look at each other with empathy and respond to each other with humility, to let go of the fear of failure, and to remember that we never have to be encumbered by someone else’s opinion.
