Florida SAND Fellowship Year One: A Review of How My Advocacy Has Benefited From My Fellowship
Hello again everyone. I hope everyone enjoyed yesterday’s blog on adaptive cooking and cookware. As my fellowship is coming to the end of the contract for my first year tomorrow, I felt it would be appropriate to give a nod to not only Florida SAND but my colleagues and the staff who trained us throughout this past year to thank them for helping my passion for advocacy grow. I came into this fellowship at a weird time in my life. Before the fellowship, I had worked for Florida SAND as a per diem writer for their blog FSA Central. While this work kept the flame for disability advocacy alive and on life support, when I was presented with the opportunity to be a fellow, I immediately jumped at it. Thank you to Kelli Munn for the opportunity. I would not be where I am today without your faith in me. However, my fellowship wasn’t as smooth of a journey as I had hoped. About a month into the fellowship, I began to take it for granted. I had an ego bigger than the state of Florida and I th