What do you want to do?

Announcing the Space/Military Intelligence Learning Experience (S/MILE)

As Disability Awareness Month begins, I will be highlight the cognitive abuse that the world has suffered under the rule of religious extremist. Nearly half (49%) of LGBTQ+ young people ages 13-17 experienced bullying, and those who did reported significantly higher rates of attempting suicide in the past year than those who did not experience bullying. The mental health crisis that has developed is systemic of an extremist mentality calling for honor killings of those who are different. 

I’m so excited to kick off Disability Awareness Month with this project. Everything that I have learned and researched for this project was born out trying to figure out what made me different. I am the third born of eight children who grew up in Florida in the 90s, and to say I was different from my older sisters was an understatement. Florida in the 90s was a crazy place. As you listen to the news and the rhetoric of our former president… that was the world I was born into. 

When I finished high school, one of my sister’s was a stay-at-home mom with three kids, another was homeless and strung out in New York, and the third was struggling through college with an unwanted pregnancy. All three went to college and not one had finished yet. The only constant I saw was that I’d likely end up with a baby, so I needed to find a way to take care of both myself and them because there was nothing for me at home. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do as a career, but I knew the military would give me chow and a place to sleep so I joined the Marine Corps. 

The Marine Corps held up their end of our agreement. They taught me a skill that I was actually really good at and cared for me throughout the dumb mistakes you make as a young kid. As my contract came to an end, I was pregnant with my second child and knew it was time to just be mom. Life rarely brings exactly what we expect. If you are open to possibilities, there is no limit to where you could end up. My decision to “just be mom” was not what I expected, but it brought me to Booz Allen where I get to be mom and help change the world despite all the trauma my mind and body has withstood over the past 38 years of living in a very flawed system built on religious extremism. 

Today, I have started compiling information to build the Space/Military Intelligence Learning Experience to teach the next generation of intelligence. The focus will be on quantum intelligence and ethical social engineering, and will be detailing the firsthand account of my life to include the macabre, weird, and existential to map out how the quantum sciences converge with the social sciences creating the space for neuro-cognitive manipulation of vulnerable communities. 

My question to you is what do you want to do? Do you want listen to the story or become a part of it? The choice is yours, but remember only you can be the Chaotic Good you want to see in the world. 

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