I had the honor to interview Jennie Dye. The way I see it’s, really great to meet a person that is really different. Somehow the way she is it’s like I can imagine my life when I’m older, just to be like her’s or something close to it. Her personality is very unique for a person her age. She is in her early 30’s and she has her attitude to be somewhat like a 20-25 years old woman. She is always in a good mood and I could see that she is happy with her life and wouldn’t want to change a thing about it. She just like if you’re in a bad mood, she will try her hardest to get you smiling again. And it looks like she had a hard time growing up. But if you really want to know then?
She has a great job that she loves. She works in our community, as an organizer. She likes to organize with her community to make affordable housing. It is like she is a developer to come with ways to help and save her community and everyone in it. Right now what she thinks is that she wants to work with the homes that are already closed. She wants everything to be as it was as before all the when homes started going foreclosed. She wants to see the little kids running around and people being up in the front just being neighborly. She does this so people like her brother, being an example, will have a better chance of a better life and better job. She saw that she wants to work in the houses that are closed to make them into condominiums. The pricing for almost all the condominiums that she has seen is two hundred thousand and up ,she told us,” if I was young right now my parents couldn’t have afforded this,” and that is that this didn’t include taxes . That’s why she got into this work, so a lot of people would have a lot of homes and jobs and start helping others.
Jennie is an organizer here with us. Her perception of the world is that she wants everyone to get along. She is a woman that wants peace and will try her hardest just to get what she wants. Her? She has a husband that she been with for twelve years and they have known each other since before 1998 . She has a daughter that she loves a lot. All she wants for her is the best. She was born in the South-Side and found true love here. She was a teacher. She taught between the years Pre-K all the way to 8th grade in the South Side. The subjects she taught were music, art, and some type of science, that when she left her job because she loved working with the young group. Then she can to work here and find a way to fix the young group so they could get involved more . She has a father, mother and two siblings and both her brother and sister are younger. She lives at Milwaukee and California
Jennie has some people in her life that help her follow her dream. Her definition of a hero would be someone who has made a change or someone who will mark history for life. Things will never be the same because of that person. The people who inspired her were at work. Like the people that work with her at her job who taught her what she knows. She works here in LSNA. Her father would have also made an impact in her life. She remembers that when she was younger her and her brother went to work with their dad. He did a paper route in the mornings at 3 and they were in their pj’s. She looks up to him because she didn’t get to see him until high school last year. She will always try to make herself to be a hero. she wants her daughter and the a group of teens ,In different schools, that she works with. What she wants to do is help them so they can follow her footsteps to what she does. She had said this statement , ”Wherever you go, whatever your passion is, whatever your dream is be sure to take people with you,” and that is what she hopes that people follow. What else can this woman do????
Written By:Cecilia Medina
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