Built by people who lived it.

Addiction is a generational disease, and it found me. I tried rehab after rehab and nothing worked — until September 28, 1997. I have been sober ever since.

Twenty-eight years of recovery have been spent in continuous service: inside rehabs, halfway houses, jails, and the broader recovery community. I know clearly what works and what does not, and New Freedom Village is the program I wish had existed for me.

From September 1998 to July 2010, I served at A.R.C. as a halfway house counselor for women struggling with addiction — nearly twelve years walking alongside women in the most fragile months of their recovery.

From July 2016 to July 2019, I founded and ran Sarah's Second Chance — an on-site job training center built to tackle generational unemployment by teaching real job skills in the retail and online industries. The work was nominated for a Jefferson Award for public service.

In July 2023, I was invited to Washington, D.C. to sit on the United States Senate's Small Business panel, representing small-business voices on the work of rebuilding lives and local economies.

In September 2024, I was honored at the White House with the Business Leadership Award, issued by the Biden/Harris Administration in recognition of this work.

I have also served on the board of Focus on Renewal, a nonprofit serving the homeless and operating food banks in the community.

I have served on the board of SITE NITE, a nonprofit focused on expanding spiritual awareness in the community.

Outside of my recovery and volunteer work, I built and ran my professional career as the owner-operator of a multi-location retail and wholesale import business, with outlets across West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and South Carolina.