I grew up in the shadow of domestic violence. I didn't have a word for what I experienced until I was an adult. What I did have was a mother who survived, a faith that held, and eventually a calling I couldn't outrun.

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Today I work at the intersection of trauma, leadership, and healing. As a Certified Trauma Support Specialist and founder and Executive Director of D.O.V.E.S. Network®, I've served teens and families across Arizona who are living what I once lived.

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Before this work, I spent 20 years inside Fortune 500 companies such as Rocket Mortgage, Domino's Pizza Corporate, and Allstate Insurance, managing operations, teams, and complexity at scale. That background doesn't leave you it just gets redirected.

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I wrote Forgotten: Living in the Shadows of Domestic Violence because I needed it to exist. Now I speak, consult, and build because healing should never be something people have to figure out alone.

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My life goal is striving to lead and love like Jesus as a woman of faith. I'm the wife of my best friend and purpose partner, AJ Mensah, and a fur mama to a Siberian Husky. My husband and I, both survivors of family histories marred by domestic violence, have set out on a mission to shatter generational curses, proving that healing, while challenging, is achievable.