Meredith Morris is my friend and former neighbor. She currently is the Director of Community Relations at a memory care assisted living community serving residents with dementia and their families. She grew up in Evanston, IL and after being told her fingers were too short, her trajectory towards being a professional cellist tragically ended. Beginning in high school and later in college, she hosted her own music and news radio shows. While ambivalent about high school, she loved her time at Earlham college where she majored in psychology. Taking a one year sabbatical to re-assess her career path, she worked at a Quaker boarding school and learning the difficulties in wrangling young women. After initially considering graduate school in poetry, she went into journalism and has worn different professional hats including managing public relations for clients such as Brookfield Zoo and the Morton Arboretum. Throughout her life, she has been drawn to community service, and always has a found a way to get involved in the local communities that she lives in.