 DAKOTA M. WALKER |
ABOUT
DAKOTA All my life I have simply wanted to make a difference. When I was a child, the teachers told my parents I was the first to come to the side of someone who had been hurt - it was never my grades they boasted about! I went into the healing arts as a way to help people, and I hope I have succeeded in doing so. But Isabelle's House is truly my passion. I want to help change the world, one woman at a time, one experience at a time, one project at a time. There is an indescribable feeling I get when I can step back and observe the faces of the women and kids who's lives we change through our projects. It is in those moments that I feel proud of the vision and work I've put forth and is also when I realize all the headaches, the phone calls, the meetings, the emails, the networking, the fund raising, the late nights, the early mornings, the problems that need fixed, the items that need picked up, the everything that goes into pulling off a project - is all worth it - every single thing makes it worth it when you see even just one person changed.
Someone very special to me recently said she would
like insight into what makes me who I am and why I do the things I
do. I don't have a complete answer for her, I only know that I have
had some amazing teachers throughout my life. They have taught me
that change comes when we each realize we are a part of that change.
Complacency has no place in life, not in a productive life anyway.
And I have learned there is nothing that is impossible, there is no
such thing as "I can't". So in short, what makes me who I am is
quite simply ... life has made me who I am - a life of joy, and
struggle, a life of pain and great loss and also a life of intense
love and profound gratitude. |