How did ENMU prepare you for your career?

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I wanted to have work flexibility while having a family. Because my mom worked full time, we always had a babysitter when we were very young children. I liked being free on weekends, holidays and summers for my future children.

In which activities have you participated in the ENMU?

I attended the ENMU from 1979 to 1984. I had a work-study program at the BSU and in the cafeteria; assisted BSU; was part of the ENMU volleyball team; volleyball referee from middle and high schools in the region; took statistics for the ENMU men’s basketball team and was the inter-muros director of the BSU.

Tell us about your career.

After graduating, I was an elementary school teacher for four years in phone number library Bloomfield, New Mexico, and Sonora, Texas. During my graduate studies this summer, I met my husband, who was training as a Navy pilot. We got married and soon after started a family when we moved to the southwest coast of Spain where he was posted to missions in the Mediterranean region, Africa and the Middle East. . So my career took a hiatus until our youngest started school while we were living in Oklahoma City.

I returned to class for another eight years in Oklahoma and Rhode Island, where my husband was a professor at the US Naval War College. In 2005, we moved to Stockholm, Sweden, and I started working as a Community Liaison Officer (CLO) at the US Embassy, ​​advising the Ambassador on issues related to the Embassy and the external community, as well as coordinating activities and events within the Embassy and the diplomatic community.