“My younger brother and I had moved across the country to live with our aunt in Federal Way in the nineties,” shares Shannel. “In that year, my aunt’s household went from one adult and two children to two adults and five children, surviving on one adult’s working-class income.”
Shannel remembers her first visit to MSC during the nineties, “One day she wrangled up the five of us kids and we went to the Federal Way food bank. I recall her receiving paper bags with the number of household members written on the outside of the bag, and we slowly went through the line with everyone else, stopping at each station to receive our allotment of different types of food. Even though I was a young teenager, to us as kids it wasn’t much different than grocery shopping.”
“MSC helped keep food on the table of a suddenly-expanded family, and was especially helpful during the summer months when we couldn’t get lunch at school,” shares Shannel. “I’m proud to work for MSC today, and see families encountering hard times able to get that same assistance thirty years later.”
Shannel joined the MSC staff in 2015 as MSC’s Annual Giving Manager and oversees our Hope Builders Club for monthly donors.
