This week, I would like to shine the spotlight on summer youth worker Monae Sheffield. Monae is 15 years old and attends Roosevelt Senior High School in Washington, D.C. This upcoming school year, Monae will be entering the 10th grade. She is a very intelligent young lady who loves to read. Her favorite subjects are math and science and she has had the honor of receiving a scholarship for science and human health. Monae has also competed in and won a science fair.
Here, at the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, Monae is excelling in her work. She has joined the Customer Service division, and is showing exemplary behavior in every task that she has been assigned. During my interview with Monae she gave me an overview of her normal day which consists of handling correspondence calls, scanning and making copies. She expressed her excitement for the up and coming weeks because she will have the opportunity to begin scheduling inspections. Monae also spends a lot of her day with DCRA employee Nikkia Greene. She sits at the front desk of the director’s office. Monea stated that she enjoys working there and she is also aware that the opportunity is a privilege. Working at the front has given Monae the opportunity to enhance her office skills such as; operating telephones, assisting customers and scheduling meetings.
Monae would define herself as great person who enjoys a challenge. She stated that she does not mind picking up slack for her team members. She believes in working together for the betterment of her group or team members. Monae plans to go to college. She wants to attend Princeton, Harvard or Georgetown University and she wants to become a lawyer. She also wants to obtain a degree in business. One day she wants to open a homeless shelter for women and children. She enjoys working for DCRA and is well aware that the techniques and skills that she will learned this summer is to benefit her later in life. She plans on using the knowledge she gained as a tool in high school and throughout her future.
–Dajah Blackwell
2 responses to “Spotlight On: Monae Sheffield”
David E Hoffman Jr
July 26th, 2009 at 15:25
This is VERY VERY good work! I am spreading this to as many people as I can. I am so impressed with DC’s DCRA role in this. I really like that you are demonstrating what YOUR department is doing! Your work and your updates are SO encouraging to the kids. I am meeting with a few of them now and they are so happy to see what others are doing positively. They are now ‘stepping up’ their game and are very interested in showing what they are contributing too. That you so much for providing ‘fuel for achieving a standard of excellence that we all know businesses, residents & the government of the District of Columbia is capable of!”
DCRA Summer Youth
July 27th, 2009 at 15:47
Hi Mr. Hoffman, thank you for stopping by and for giving us your feedback! The youth are working very hard to make this a place of inspiration for not only their peers working here at DCRA, but at other agencies as well. Thank you for also spreading the word. It’s always good to showcase the good things that kids are doing. We certainly get enough of the bad stuff on a regular basis!
Ms. Kemp