By Dana Elgaali, Staff Writer
Although she had plans to be a writer, after doing a project in college where she compared 2 schools and the difference in resources they received, new counselor Ashley Saephan felt compelled to make a difference through education.
The first thing Ms. Saephan did when she realized she wanted to make a difference with kids was to research jobs in education. She tried being a tutor but she noticed she didn’t have the patience. As she started to mentor students, she found herself liking the human connection, and asking herself, “How can I be an advocate to fight for them if there were resources that they were lacking?”
While Ms. Seaphan’s original plan was to become a teacher, but she couldn’t find a subject that interested her enough, so she eventually decided to take the path of being a counselor. She said, “I cared about education but I didn’t want to work in education as a teacher, counselors do a lot of great things and so that’s how I decided counseling was for me.”
“When something feels right to you,you just go with it and the team was just so warm and accepting that i said i wanna work here with these people”-Ms.Saephan
