Enroll America Reflection

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At the end of the year 2015, I was given life-changing by my employer Enroll America I begin 2016 no longer with the organization. It was a potential consequence of the great work I led in northeast Ohio I knew could happen. I had led a tremendous staff and built strong coalitions that resulted in thousands of families changed with the security of Medicaid or reduced cost-health insurance. Resources were needed in other states where more needed to be accomplished so our work at come toward an appropriate conclusion. I knew this was the moment to return to my original passion of teaching. I set out the goal that in two years I would be graduating with a degree in teaching. This goal had could only be accomplished while being a husband and father.

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