Sherise Assad figured she had a pair of options in a year in which the world got turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“You can be one of two people: you can sit back and watch it all go down, or you stand up and try to be someone who does better,” she said.
She chose the latter, and for her efforts she was one of 20 honorees recognized in the Huron Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Rise to the Occasion awards.
Assad s also the reason Jen Hill, HVCC event and communications manager, has been in tears this week overwhelmed by the generosity.