Leveraging
a lifetime of Faith in God, more than a 2 decades of experience
positioning solutions related to medical science with such entities
as GE
Healthcare and Roche Diagnostics, as an Advocate and Activist. Her
interest focuses on the unique demands of Women. Wellness is top of
mind and how to constantly manage wellness while juggling the demands
of life. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer and managed the
challenges with grace and poise, looking well beyond breast cancer
became the clarion call.
A
wife of a 20-year Military Veteran, bringing solutions during an
unprecedented time in American History with a viral pandemic
consuming hundreds of thousands of lives, much of her advocating took
on a temporary virtual face to further reach those in need.
Born
to amazing parents, James Lee Brown & Rachel Marie Guerrero
Brown, in a small town in Lawnside, New Jersey, her life experiences
of overcoming challenges and setbacks came early when her father, who
was everything
and then some to her, died seemingly suddenly of skin cancer, when
she was just 13 years old.
Healing
and wholeness has been a mainstay focus throughout her career. As a
child, she suffered from asthma. Her frequent visits to the family
doctor resulted in immediate relief and peaked her curiosity at a
young age. From her early days she always wanted to know what happens
to a child’s body deprived of air, making it nearly impossible to
breath one minute that is relieved instantly.
Hijacked
hopes of completing a medical degree to practice medicine after
completing a Bachelor’s Degree at Rutgers University, staying as
close to the profession by career choices gave her a unique
perspective of the business of medicine. Advocating in a healthcare
industry that moved from giving a doctor the freedom to practice
medicine based on years of education and extensive training, to the
beginning of governing bodies without such a background, determining
medical care, became her mission. As a high performance sales
professional, she learned to draw on her career training and layer
her life experiences to elevate the importance of making health a
priority.
Carmen’s
desire to understand life at its core lead to her to complete
another 4-year degree in Theology, From her childhood and into
adulthood, the quest to not just understand the meaning of her life,
but also answer questions such as, why bad things happen to good
people, is life predestined or are we the masters of our fate, and
many others. She served 10 years as a Leader in Inter-denomination
Organization. The responsibility of organizing and managing teams of
more than 120 people in Outreach efforts in the USA and Canada gave
her tremendous insights into the uniqueness of each and every
individual – men, women, husbands, wives, teenagers, young adults
and children. Having a touchstone for truth and a way to measure and
weigh life lead to a love for Biblical studies with a view toward
teaching people how to apply the principles and understand life’s
manual. After all, every piece of equipment comes with instructions
and her hypothesis remains, if God created man, than surely there
must be a
guide, a manual to detail how to optimize and function at your best!
Carmen credits her looking well beyond breast cancer and thriving
beyond a diagnosis of breast cancer to God and being a life learner.
A
graduate of Rutgers University with graduate studies at New York
University and Wayne State University, 12 years at the bench as a research
scientist, followed by academic studies in Biblical research at the
former College of Emporia, allows her to bring faith, knowledge and
experience in the challenges of today, whether they be physical,
mental, or spiritual.
