Blog #1

Hello everyone, my name is Danielle Schwartz, and I am 22 years old. I have two younger brothers, Kyle, he is 20 and Bradley is 15. I currently live with my brother, Kyle, and my two dogs (which are my children!), in our condo in Old Town Scottsdale.

I am a Justice Studies Major, currently finishing my last semester and graduating (fingers crossed!) in December. I am not really planning on doing anything with that major, I want to go on to business school and get my MBA in healthcare management. I have been working for my dad, a gastroenterologist, for at least 6 years. I have worked every position imaginable in his office and am currently the “assistant office manager.” My grandma is the current office manager, and is planning to retire in January, after I graduate, making me the office manager. My ultimate goal is to run my dad’s office for a few years and then become the CEO of a large corporation of gastroenterologists in Arizona. So those are my dreams and aspirations in a nutshell! Since I have worked for my dad for so long, I have gained a great understanding for how medical offices should be run to produce the most profit and to be as successful as possible. I obviously have an invested interest in how my dad’s business does, along with my grandma, and this has shaped how I work and has made me care more about things than say another office manager that does not have the same relationship with her employer. I know that my work ethic would be the same if I were to run any other office or even the whole corporation because I have worked this way forever!

I chose to take this course because I took a course with Professor Lim last semester and really enjoyed her class. I learned a lot about stuff that I had no clue about going into the class and expect to learn the same this time around. Since I am not planning on going to law school per se right now, I may want to pursue it later on in life and all of my justice classes are setting a good foundation for that. Last semester I was able to learn how technology and justice worked together and formed social movements. This semester, I honestly have not a clue about the correlation between science, technology and injustice, so I am hoping to learn what that means and where it exists.