My name is Stephanie Lajam and I am in my first semester of the. Prior to beginning my journey to become an educator, I received my bachelor's degree from The College of New Jersey in Communications in 2010 and a master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from Rutgers University in 2016. Like many, the COVID-19 pandemic left me without a job after working at a small New Jersey-based nonprofit for the last decade. With the closing of that chapter,  I was gifted the opportunity to explore a career I have often thought about over the years...