Meet the Team
With one exception, each person on our team is a graduate of AssistU (and our exceptional exception also happens to be the only guy on the team!). Although a small team, we are mighty and care deeply about each other, our profession, and helping you. We ask each other to weigh in on different topics throughout the year, some silly, and some serious, so be sure to stop back and see what we have to say! The current question is:
If you could invite three people from any time in history to dinner with you, who would you invite and why?
Anastacia Brice
Founder
Maya Angelou, Gertrude Bell, and Michelle Obama, for their quiet fierceness. The conversations and connections we would have would be legend!
—get to know Anastacia
Nicole Paull
Anastacia's Fab VA
Edward Bok — because I think he was a kindred spirit. The Apostle Peter (some people would know him as Saint Peter) because I think he’s a wonderful example of how someone can grow beyond early limitations to become a force for good. Vincent Van Gogh because his ability to infuse emotion onto canvas fills me with joy and wonder.
—get to know Nicole
Heather Hinson
Mentor
I would love to have dinner with Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Amelia Earhart. I’m not sure if I would invite them together or separately, the conversation would be interesting either way, but I do think they would enjoy meeting each other!
—get to know Heather
Lorri Morin
Mentor
Benjamin Franklin because I think he was great at thinking outside the box. Madeleine Albright because I think she is fierce. Mother Teresa because of her incredible capacity for love and acceptance.
—get to know Lorri
Gayle Bu
Mentor
Jesus – Because he’s the son of God and had a hand in creating everything. I mean, there would be so much to talk about. Oprah – Because she’s an amazing inspiration and an amazing human being. She managed to take the sourest of lemons and turn them in to the sweetest and most delightful strawberry lemonade. Lin Manuel Miranda – Because the man is so consummately cool and brilliant at whatever he puts his mind to. His skill with a pen is unparalleled.
—get to know Gayle
Amy Kazor, CMVA
Mentor
Jesus, the first Queen Elizabeth, and Thomas Jefferson – to learn from each of them and experience their presence.
—get to know Amy
Kelly Morrison
Social Media Coordinator
My mawmaw – so I can ask her all of the things I’ve wanted to ask her as an adult that I didn’t get to ask when I was a child and she was still living. Kevin Spacey – I love him and think he is brilliant and would love to chat with him. Plus, I think he’d love my mawmaw. :)
Elvis Presley – To hear more about his life straight from him. (Plus we’ll need dinner music. ;) )
—get to know Kelly
Mindy Bowman
Maker of Wildly Pretty Things
Abraham Lincoln – for his wisdom, my paternal grandmother – to hear her sing and her stories, and Eleanor Roosevelt – for a pep talk!
—get to know Mindy
Jon Nix
Fixer
This is tricky as I’m torn between the personally meaningful and the famous, but I think the spirit of the question is for the latter so I’ll go for David Bowie, Maya Angelou, and, just to keep things interesting (!), Elizabeth I!
—get to know Jon
Pat Denzer
Captioning Perfector
Mother Theresa—to learn what inspired and motivated her to give her life to complete service to others. Rosa Parks—to hear what inside of her gave her the courage to not move to the back of the bus. And John Lennon—to talk with him about his song, Imagine, and his views on how he envisioned our having world peace.
—get to know Pat
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.”
– Walter Winchell