Lane, L. A.

I was born and raised in the Midwest. I am a firm believer that no matter what circumstances you are faced with you have the power to change them. The odds were stacked against me as a teenager when I found out I was pregnant. I decided not to give up. I continued to push forward. I refused to let my current situation dictate my future. My husband and I started out as teenage parents but we've been married since 2002 and our son is 22 years old. I went on to graduate from Hickman High School in 1995. In 2008 I graduated from Columbia College with a B.A. in Sociology. I worked for the Columbia