To look at Catherine, you wouldn’t guess anything is wrong.  As Assistant to the Director of Career Solutions, she shows incredible patience working with other disabled people, teaching the skills that will help them find work.  Not only is she patient, but she’s constantly flashing an encouraging grin.  No one would ever guess the pain she lives with.

“I’m in constant pain every day of my life,” Catherine admits, letting her smile drop for the briefest of seconds.  “But when I look at my students and how much they have overcome to work, my pain seems minor.”  Catherine suffers from fibromyalgia, a condition that keeps her in agony and once threatened to keep her from work.  Not anymore.  “The people are such an encouragement here,” she says.  “Their determination keeps me going.”  And Catherine returns the favor, helping her students find their own personal triumph in work.