My name is Teresa Hansen. I have two brothers and one sister. At the present time, my younger brother is living with me and my partner. My older brother has recently married and teaches 6th grade in Anthem. My sister is staying busy with work and an eight-month old, not to forget her 13-year old as well. I am very close with my niece and had the pleasure of taking her to Sea World and Legoland this summer before school started back up. My mom has raised the four of us pretty much on her own. She has been the bread winner, the disciplinarian, and the support system for all of us. I look back at all she did for us and still do not see how she did it all by herself.
I earned my Associate's Degree from Palomar Community College while I was in the Navy stationed at Camp Pendleton in California. When I got back to Arizona in January 2006 I started to attended classes at ASU. I thought I wanted to get my Degree in Business, but after a couple semesters I found that I did not like the area too much at all. With not knowing what I wanted to major in I took a break from ASU and went to the Arizona School of Massage Therapy and got my liscense there. With the new Post 9/11 G.I. Bill for Veterans my tuition is paid in full. So, I decided it was time to return to the classroom and work towards a Bachelor's Degree. I have entered the Interdisciplinary Studies Department and have chosen Family/Child Studies and Women and Gender Studies as my two concentration areas. I find the information from these topics to be very interesting.
I think that women, work, and justice is about how far women have come and how they are still being held down. I would like to learn how to help myself and other women in the work force. Learn how to not get taken advantage of. I think of justice in the work place to be of importance to me specifically. Hearing my mom and sister talk of their jobs in a blue-collar work place and my own time in the Navy has made it an issue that hits close to the heart.
