Board Testimonials

“Over the long haul, allowing other people into our heart and soul, and sharing things that are closest to you, helps you to become a different person… It allows you to find the real person that you are.”

 

LINDA WITTISH

 

 

 

 

“I think we learn, at least for myself, we learn how wrong some of our stereotypes are. I have met a lot of nice people in a neighborhood that I thought was not so nice.”

 

SAUNDERS ALDRIDGE

 

 

 

 

 

“We encourage relationships between people who would ordinarily not meet and we diminish the fear people have of one another.”

 

KRISTIN RUSSELL

 

 

 

 

 

“Social marginalization, social deprivation is one of the worst things I can think of subjecting someone to… I see one of the reasons why we do citizen advocacy as being to free people from that.”

 

SEAN BRANDON

 

 

 

 

“Citizen Advocates often seem to re-define who people really are. The experts have a definition of who people are and it ends up being really different than what a citizen advocate learns.”

 

SUSAN EARL