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Mike: So tell me about yourself?
Jaclyn: Tell me about….(chuckles and composure)
Mike: Where you come from? What’s your family like?
Jaclyn: Ok. Um.
Mike: Parents, Siblings, …
Jaclyn: Well um.. I was born at a Petersburg Hospital. Southside
Regional and spent my first five years of life living in Chesterfield Virginia.
Then my family: me, my mom, my dad at the time moved to Colonial Heights
Virginia and they bought my dad’s parents house. So um, from that point on from
year five to like the end of high school I lived in my Oma’s house, that’s what
I call my dads grandma. So yeah then they bought a nice new expensive house in
a rich neighborhood in Colonial Heights. I hated that house. They still live
there now. It’s just not really like homey. I never felt at home in that house.
Mike: It’s kind of foreign to you now uh?
Jaclyn: Yeah. Definitely. I don’t feel, I feel I don’t really have a
home right now cause I have been living in an apartment for the past 3-4 years
and that’s really a temporary residence, you know.
Mike: Right.
Jaclyn: But more about my family. I have two little sisters, Madison
and Tori. Madison is ten years old and Tori is twelve years old. So
Mike: They are both currently in middle school or…?
Jaclyn: Madison is in five grade this is her last year, she goes to
Tussing Elementary School and Tori, this is her first year in middle school so
she is in 6th grade. So
Mike: How is she enjoying that?
Jaclyn: I think she likes it. She does cheering, which is totally
the opposite of what… like I hate cheerleaders..
Mike: Cheering
Jaclyn: Yeah
Mike: That’s pretty early to start in middle school isn’t it?
Mike: Is she thinking about doing that in high school or is it to
early to tell?
Jaclyn: She really likes it so um she probably will.
Mike: What did your parents do? In terms of work?
Jaclyn: My dad is a police officer. He has been doing that his whole
life. He’s done a lot of things on the police force. He was a detective, he was
on the drug task force, he did you know street work. Right now he is doing a mixture
of street work and deskwork.
Mike: Oh wow.!
Jaclyn: He’s a sergeant, so he’s like not the lowest of the low, but
he’s not the head guy in charge, so.
Mike: That must be interesting as a role model for a father and I
can’t imagine what that would be like?
Jaclyn: It was pretty difficult, I think growing up. I would never
want my husband to be a police officer because I just, I remember what it was
like as a child kind of growing up with that. It was good and it was bad
because I had to like watch my back and like never step out of line. Really as
a child and as a teenager and I guess that affected my personality now. I
don’t, I’m not too crazy.
Mike: In terms of that being an occupation and him being a parent
did that kind of show through his parenting?
Jaclyn: Yeah definitely.
Mike: He interrogate you very much?
Jaclyn: Uh.. yeah a little bit, but he was just disciplined, a disciplined
father. And my mom, she is a schoolteacher. She has always been a schoolteacher.
She teaches K through 3 and reading for kids that need help, though with
reading.
Mike: Now those are completely drastic, two different sides. So in
terms of education who helped you most? Your mom?
Jaclyn: Um, that’s hard to say. I think my mom with reading and
stuff, but my poor subjects were math and like spelling and still are. My dad
would like, since I hated it so much, my mom couldn’t take teaching me. So um,
he would like get me to do it and like I would have to show him my homework and
that kind of thing. So he would do the hard subjects with me.
Mike: So being born in Petersburg as you said and have been moved
around to Colonial Heights, what as your childhood like?
Mike: I catch ya.
Jaclyn: Yeah
Mike: And so…Are you married or single?
Jaclyn: I’m married. You know that. (laughter)
Mike: I’m trying to act like I don’t.
Jaclyn: Um yeah. So, October 22nd is our Anniversary date
so it’s coming up on a year now and my husband
Mike: So it was 2011?
Jaclyn: Yup, um my husbands name is Josh, Joshua Keith Brown. He’s a
cute guy. What do you want to know?
Mike: What does he do?
Jaclyn: Right now he is working at Wells Fargo as a teller and he’s
currently applying to teaching positions. He got his degree in history from VCU
a couple, a year ago and a year and half ago, something like that. So he’s just
been like working and he really has got the motivation recently to actually
this is it I got to apply for jobs to get the job, you know.
Mike: Right
Jaclyn: So he really wants to be like a high school history teacher
and so he’s just been applying.
Mike: I thought it was interesting how you said he is a history
major and he wants to do teaching but he is doing the middle step in terms of
being a bank teller.
Jaclyn: Yeah he really…
Mike: I always pictured him as a kind of like in office building.
He appears that way.
Jaclyn: He worked actually at a office building type thing called
retail data, but he had a horrible boss and so he left there. It was making him
same amount at his teller job so he’s better off there now. He’s really good
with kids and he’s really good at learning information, especially history and
math. Like he helped me with math all the way through community college because
I like really struggled with that. So…yeah.
Mike: You talked about community college. In terms of your
education, I guess, what high school and then from high school why did you go
to community college and then decide to come here?
Jaclyn: That’s a good question. So as of high school senior I was
really involved with everything. I was captain of the soccer team, captain of
the field hockey team, I ran track, I played travel soccer, I was, u know art
club president, I was national art society historian or something of that sort.
So I was doing so many things that’s not even everything and I was constantly
told I always need to have stuff on your resume like to get into college and
stuff like that. So I was like good at art and I knew that I want to go to VCU,
well I was actually debating between Liberty University, its like that
Christian college in Lynchburg I knew a lot of people that were there and I had
been there a couple of times and it was nice but I was really interested in
art. I wasn’t sure exactly what area in art I wanted to go into so I just put
something like graphic design down or interior design and my high school was very
very small there was like a hundred and fifty, a hundred and seventy five
students in my senior high class. So high school was small and we didn’t have
any art classes besides like the regular normal art class. We didn’t have
photography, we didn’t have design, and we didn’t have anything. So I just put
something down and I was thing I was interested in design, applied to VCU, did
not get in, so I was like what am I going to do, should I go to Liberty I was
accepted to Liberty, but it was a lot a lot of money. My dad was like really
against that and was like well if you go to community college for two years im
going to pay for that and then I’ll pay for the rest of your college because my
parents did the Virginia 529 savings plan. So um that like helped them out
finically. So yeah I went to Richard Blan and then I guess I can just tell you
the rest. I went to Richard Blan, stayed there two years, applied to VCU and I
didn’t get into VCU for the second time. Well they said I was accepted into the
college, but not
Mike: Not the arts program
Jaclyn: Right, yeah
Jaclyn: So I was really really upset because I knew I was good
enough by then like I had a really good portfolio at that level and so I went
up to Tracie Taylor’s office at the Photography and Film floor at VCU and I
asked her like I need to know why I didn’t get in so she dragged me into her
office, and she was like first off never put a cat in your portfolio. I was
like I didn’t have a cat in my portfolio. So she was like, “What that’s crazy.??”
So we found my correct portfolio thati had sent in and she was like well your
pretty good, um we are probably going to have to accept you. So I pretty much
got on the spot, except in some of her after I went through that.
Mike: So with your determination, you went in and sought out
somebody and helped you get in.
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