

She found building relationships while working a fulltime job to be both challenging and rewarding and notes it as another way she was able to grow. Personally, she also saw growth in her own cultural competency, as she lived in towns different than her own and worked to build relationships with people from different backgrounds. This also helped her realize that everything will work out, even in stressful times. This allowed her to become versatile personally and professionally. She also feels growth came from moving throughout the state. She works to ensure meetings are goal and action based and people feel like work is happening in an effective way. Professionally, Mari feels she feels her growth has taken place in how she leads meetings. She enjoyed learning from the youth and other leaders throughout the nation while there. Some of her favorite moments within the fellowship include attending the National Prevention Network in Chicago. She also feels she enhanced her abilities to talk to people both at the individual level and when leading meetings.

Mari feels proud of the connections she made within phase two and three of the fellowship.
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She also feels she learned how to apply goal setting to her work and how to use strategic frameworks in a variety of settings. Mari feels she grow in her ability to be adaptable, she notes that working in human services means meeting your clients where they are at and that means being adaptable. Above all, she is proud of the growth she experienced within herself. Mari is proud of many projects she did while in the fellowship.
