After meeting Vanessa Allen, CEO of the Urban League of Northwest Indiana through the Leadership Northwest Indiana program, I was pulled onto the board through 2010. Because of the meeting times during lunch, it was hard to get to them due to the 40-minute commute so I stepped off but wanted to stay involved. The Urban League Young Professionals group was the right it and I was able to interact and learn more about issues that tended to fall outside of my immediate community.
