Our House e-newsletter January 2012 | Page 18

hometown Little Rock, AR education English BA, Lyon College Our House staff since November 2010 I serve as a hub for people in the community who are interested in volunteering & for our staff as they try to find volunteers to fill specific needs. My favorite part, though, is developing service learning curriculum for high school volunteers. I’ve always been very passionate about issues of social justice, but since beginning work at Our House, my perceptions of homelessness have really changed. I better understand the realities people living in homelessness face every day & am more determined to see homelessness in Little Rock become a thing of the past. You know all those weird gadgets & machines in eye clinics? Yep, I cleaned those. Many people inspire me. Two are Maximilian Kolbe & Flannery O’Conner. (Google them!) Another is my grandpa, Edmund Gangluff. Somehow he is both the toughest & gentlest person I know. I’m a lucky girl to have amazing friends who listen to my rambling anecdotes, let me hog both arm rests at the movies, & are always up for a spontaneous canoe trip, karaoke night, or bike ride. I try to waste time with them as much as possible. Never forget that we belong to each other. A dentist/flight attendant who performed in the circus on weekends.