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I grew up as a military brat, never living anywhere for more than four years. I graduated from High School at Mascoutah Community High School in 1984. The guidance counselor advised me to join the military because I was not smart enough to attend college. So that is what I did. I joined the Air Force and served as a C-130 Crew Chief, ending my seven years, six months, and 14 days in the 655 SOMS, 1st Special Operations Wing. At this point, I decided that I wanted to be a cop, but because of injuries received during Desert Storm, I could not pass the physical exam. I then turned my sights on working juvenile probation. I was told I needed to have a College Degree, so I went to college. Upon graduating, I went to get my job as a probation officer.
This time I was told that because I did not have experience in corrections, I did not qualify, and it was recommended that I get a job at a prison or jail for at least six months, and then I could become a probation officer. That is what I did. In 2001, I started working for the Corrections Corporation of America at a Federal Detention Center for deportable aliens. Working in a prison where 95% of the population spoke only Spanish was difficult because I do not speak Spanish. My inability to speak Spanish and not learning the vocabulary prevented me from advancing in my career. At the end of 2002, I again sought a position in Adult Probation. When I interviewed, the Chief Probation Officer asked where I had been and said that they had been looking for me for six months to offer me a job. I became a Probation Officer and loved the position. One of the things that my parents raised me to do was to make the world a better place, and I believed that I was doing just that. I had two specialized caseloads while working as a probation officer; the first was substance abuse, the other was domestic violence. Because of my work with domestic violence, I worked closely with the officers in the sex offender division. I also got to work with the drug court, helping defendants start “thinking for a change.” As I went along, I felt like I would like to advance within the probation field and learned that I would have to obtain a graduate degree, so back to school I went. Attending Sul Ross State University, I was allowed to be a teaching assistant and to lecture lower-level classes. This opportunity showed me my passion for teaching. As a teacher, I could also fulfill my family's obligation to make a positive change in the world.
I remained at Sul Ross while I obtained a Master of Science in Criminal Justice and a Master of Arts in Public Administration. During the Spring of 2006, I interviewed for a teaching position at Howard College in Big Spring, TX.
I was the Program Director of the Criminal Justice Department at Howard College for ten years. While teaching Criminal Justice at Howard College, I enrolled at Walden University, seeking a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice. Walden did not have a Ph.D. in CJ but had one in Human Services with a CJ concentration. Believing this was the best plan, I started to chase my Ph.D.
After a couple of semesters of struggling with the rigor of a Ph.D. program, I got things together. I started researching hate and extremism and its effect on the criminal justice profession. My dissertation is titled Texas Sheriff's Perceptions of the Right Wing Militia. I started this research while the Bundys were causing problems with the Federal Government and what I have coined the Passover Standoff 2014. I finally completed my Ph.D. in August 2016 and left Howard College to continue researching hate and extremism. In 2017, I returned to the workforce as a Conservatorship Specialist for the Department of Family and Protective Services, Child Protective Services. During this time, I also was looking for a Criminal Justice Program at the university level to teach. Ashford University hired me as an adjunct. In January 2019, I took a faculty position at Western New Mexico University. During my 1st semester at WNMU, I was called by the University Of Texas Permian Basin with the primary objective of rebuilding the Master's program. I started working full-time here at UTPB in the fall semester of 2019.
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