Cheryl Graves

I have met one of the many heroes in our community. Her name is Cheryl Graves.  I had a chance to interview her, and I got to know her. She is a positive person that thinks everyone should be heard equally. She also thinks that eating is a way that you could bring people together. She has a daughter who is 16 and is bipolar. Cheryl thinks that young people feel like they don’t have power. Injustice is something that motivates her because not everyone is treated fairly. She does her job to help people find their power and make sure their thoughts are being counted.

She helps people in the community in the way that she listens to everyone no matter their age or if they are young. Just because older people know things, that doesn’t mean they know everything. Everyone should be heard because everyone has a different thought or point of view. Everyone likes to be heard, and no one should be left behind for any reason. When people share different ideas with other people’s ideas, they bring their ideas together to come up with something better.

She is curious to learn about other communities such as technology and restaurants. Also she would like to see how things are functioning right now and how they functioned in the past. She says that every community has its specialties. She has always been curious about how things are functioning in other communities because she has always been working in the same community. She overcame many obstacles in order to get to where she is now.

She thinks that opportunities are the best part of the community and its people. She is a hero because she gets to hear everyone regardless of their age or anything personal. Her hero is her uncle Wilson Graves, someone threw a grenade at him and he got hurt, but did not give up. He organized  a basketball team and a soccer team, since it is on the south side and almost no one played soccer. Her uncle never gave up accomplish wonderful things, and that is why he is her hero.

Written by: Daniel Carteno