There's a lot about the field that I'm
passionate about. I think for starters
just the fact that criminal justice
professionals, all criminal justice
professionals have such a profound
impact on human life and such a
responsibility to serve the public in
good faith, and I have the exciting and
rewarding role of helping educate those
future criminal justice professionals.
I'm going into the criminal justice
field because I think it's a great way
to help people, and it's also something
that I've found intriguing ever since I
was a little kid.
Ultimately, I guess my goal is to be in
the FBI. I'm going to law enforcement
because my father was a law
enforcement officer for many years. He
just had a great influence on me, and
everything that I've done I want to
follow in his footsteps. My future plans is to hopefully
get a baseball scholarship, get my
four-year degree, and join the New York state troopers.
The reason I chose this field
is because I have a lot of family members
in law enforcement ... my uncle and it
just felt like the right way to do it.
Role models I have is probably my dad
just because he's helped me through baseball
so much, and then my uncle has just helped me
through the law enforcement. Any question I
have I can go to him and not worry about
anything. I'm the secretary of the
criminal justice club here at JCC, and
what we do is invite criminal justice
professionals to come in and talk about
what they do and the different aspects
of the jobs. A lot of teachers that can
guide you along the way, give you a lot
of information ... their wealth of knowledge
and they're here for the students. They
want to see you succeed and go forward in
your career. As a professor, I came to JCC
because I feel like as an institution we
really do care about our students, and we
really make an effort to challenge our
students too. That's one of the great
things about the criminal justice field.
It's so broad. You can work in forensics,
you can work behind the scenes, you can
work as victim advocates, you can work as
police officers, judges, lawyers. There's just so
many directions, and it's really exciting
helping connect our students to those
careers.
