Brooklyn storage unit at 2887 Atlantic Avenue<\/a> at least once a week to re-up her supplies for a day on the road, traveling around to hospitals and health facilities. She loves her job and working in an industry that helps people. Within the next year or so, she plans to go back to school for an MBA to learn more about pharmaceutical marketing.<\/p>\nHer motivation, she says, comes from her parents, who came to the United States from Haiti in the 1980s, fleeing the dictatorship of Baby Doc and economic hardship. They met and fell in love in Boston, had kids and set about building a life in America. That meant finding jobs and putting themselves through school.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was growing up, I would sit in with my parents at their classes at the community college. There were no babysitters. My dad was a taxi driver and bus driver and my mother was a medical assistant. My dad now has a bachelor\u2019s in nursing and my mom is about to get her RN at age 55.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her parents also taught Diana that life is not about material things. She feels lucky to have always had clean clothes and food on the table. Her current job, a careful approach to money and her parents\u2019 support has afforded her another level of comfort. By saving and budgeting she\u2019s now looking to buy her own condo in Brooklyn at age 28.<\/p>\n
\u201cA dollar goes a long way. But you can\u2019t be frivolous. I always think about my grandparents back in Haiti who never had a 401k. There was no such thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
When she\u2019s not working, Diana reads, tries new restaurants and travels the world\u2014last year she went to Bali, Indonesia for her birthday\u2014and she\u2019s active in Travel Noire, a travel club that encourages people of color to explore the globe.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough the group, I was able to take advantage of a glitch that allowed me to fly to Dubai for $125, round-trip. I did not see people of color traveling when I was growing up, and this group gives us the opportunity to team up with others and get out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s been to Brazil, Switzerland, and France, and she particularly enjoyed visiting Cuba, which she said felt like a time capsule. One of her most moving experiences came in 2013 when she visited her parents\u2019 native homeland, which was still recovering from the devastating 2010 earthquake.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the second time I\u2019d been to Haiti but it was amazing to see the odds my parents overcame to get to America,\u201d she says. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned from them is that you have to have a good education and you have to have a strong work ethic. You work hard and then you help others.\u201d<\/p>\n
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