I have a healthy respect for law enforcement having spent five years as a teenage volunteer, including a full year as Captain of a Police Explorer post in California. In my senior year, I held the position as producer of the first video yearbook. I also spent a year as a volunteer, as a Journalism News Explorer (photographer) where some of my photos were published in the local newspaper. Having lived overseas in southern Germany for 14 months, my position was to facilitate caring for USA military men and women and their families during R&R (Rest and Relaxation). Interest in other cultures led me to travel-Europe, China, South America, Asia. As a former membership coordinator for a non-profit, educational Constitutional Association, I realize the value and importance of re-instututing civics back to United States classrooms.