I became an enTRUST Services’ benefits counselor and financial specialist when the nonprofit launched in 2023. In this role, I facilitate the day to day business operations. My mindset is that of projecting a compassionate advocacy focused, but fiscally minded approach to ensure timely responsiveness to current and future trust holders, beneficiaries, and those in need of holding onto their Federal benefits while pursuing employment goals to achieve financial independence. I have maintained the Mainstay Life Services’ Residential Account, the Mainstay Life Services Representative Payee program (since 2003), and the Mainstay Life Services Special Needs Pooled Trust (since 2011). I have more than 19 years of accounting and fiscal experience in the nonprofit human services, alongside such agencies as the Social Security Administration, Department of Human Services, Allegheny County, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Funeral Alliance of PA.I have been happily married to my husband Joe for 32 years, and is a mother of two, with 3 grandchildren. My devotion is to the needs of my family and others by way of her 5-year tenure in the US Army, then receiving her Associate of Arts at Saint Leo College, this led her to earn her Bachelor of Science in Organization Leadership at Duquesne University years later, and then as of last year, earned her credentialling as a Work Incentives Practitioner at Cornell University