He sent the info on to the marketing staff for the GSPA.
An interview down, and a headshot later, I'm being spotlighted in the annual magazine, Views, that the school puts out to market their programs. The writer of the article just sent me the draft for my review, to ensure factual accuracy.
Voila - I am a poster child:
Heather Meyer
A program that fits her passion
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. --Mother Teresa
It’s fitting that MPA student Heather Meyer chooses to quote Mother Teresa just below her e-mail signature. Even though she envisioned a path to a career in private-practice psychotherapy with an undergraduate degree in psychology, that all changed when she began working as a homeless outreach worker in Larimer County.
Meyer earned the 2006 Larimer County Affordable Housing Coalition’s Individual Recognition Award for her work to get an accurate count
of the homeless in that area.
“The face of homelessness isn’t just about single white males who are substance abusers or about people who are lazy making bad choices,” she discovered. “It’s just as much about families trying hard who don’t have resources.”
“To create lasting change,” she says, “we need leaders who understand the issues.” Meyer’s ambition to develop as a leader to raise public awareness and bring about change drove her to enroll in the GSPA program. The fact that the program is online enables Meyer to work full time—now as a human services administrative specialist for the City of Loveland—and tend to her family, which includes two children.
Meyer enrolled as a part-time student just this spring, but already is confident that she chose the right degree program to build on her real-world experience. “The MPA fits my passion perfectly.”
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