Name: Abby White
Job Title: System Administrator
Where do you hail from:
I was born and raised in Lincoln. I have lived here for all but three years of my life. The three years away from Nebraska were spent in upstate New York between Syracuse and Albany across the road from a dairy farm….not too different than Nebraska in some ways I suppose.
What is it they say you do:
I am the System Administrator for the City of Lincoln Continuum of Care. Translation: I will be training and supporting users on how to use the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) of ServicePoint, taking care of reports and providing support to Lincoln agencies for data quality for their funding sources. I will also help with other needed reports for CCFL and the community and assist with Point-in-Time Counts (PITs) and the Annual Homeless Assessments Reports. And I’m sure…. “other duties as assigned”.
Who are your early influences/who inspired you most:
My family support has been amazing from the very beginning. I have been blessed with wonderful people to look up to on both sides of my family. My grandmother, Lorene, was an inspiration and support for not only me but everyone in our family. She loved us no matter what we may have done and was there to cheer us on in whatever it was we were doing. When something went right, she was one of the first people I told; and when something wasn’t going right, she was also one of the first people I turned to.
Family life/hobbies /community involvement:
I have a daughter named Libbie, who will be turning sixteen in April—something I have mixed emotions about to say the least. She is amazing, creative, and artistic. She attends Southeast and the Arts and Humanities Focus Program. As crazy as it sounds, one of the things that I enjoy doing is making things from concrete or tin. I have sold items at local stores and farmers markets.
The quotation I live my life by is......
Well, I am in a period of transition—a new job is just one of those things, so for the past year it has been an Erin Hanson poem, "There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky, and you ask, “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, What if you fly?"