My journey overcoming the adversity of poverty, gangs, and incarceration, combined with an education in information technology, fuels my passion to discover how technology can increase equity and improve the quality of life for people while also driving economic success. This has led me forward on a path through start-ups, entrepreneurship, corporate enterprise, nonprofit and public service. In discovering myself personally and professionally and understanding how I add value and what purposes I want to give that value to have led me back to my rural hometown to lead the community toward growth, both, socially and economically. Rural southeast Colorado is challenged with many disparities and I believe that by “implementing” technology and processes and "configuring" it with strategic planning and consideration for the better good of the community we can create the systemic change that can promote equity and well-being for people and businesses in the community.