Catrina Peaks

I am a transfer student from Durham Technical Community and currently a senior at NCCU pursuing a degree in Pharmaceutical Science in the Brite program. I am employed fulltime at UNC Hospital as a Health Unit Coordinator on the abdominal transplant unit. I have been employed there on the same floor for thirteen years. As well as being a fulltime employee at UNC and fulltime student at Central I’m also a single mother of an eleven year old who has just started her own new journey in middle school.
I work hard during the fall and spring semester with my daughter, school work and my job so when the summer rolls around I feel like I can let my hair down. I feel like a teenager whose parent has gone out of town for the weekend and free to have fun with no cares in the world. My daughter spends part of the summer with her dad and that leaves me with a little me time. With that time I like to travel and when I’m not traveling I’m helping my mother around the house and running errands because my father past this summer.
As I embark on new adventures and try to make myself a better me than yesterday I strive to be my daughter’s biggest role model. I feel that my biggest job is to assure my child is prepared for the world and not become a statistic of a child raised by a single parent and that she doesn’t make the same mistakes in life as I did. I am trying to make her a better me because she is a product me.
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
-Maya Angelou