Author Description

Dr. Kasona Coates has over 20 years of teaching, mentoring, coaching, and facilitating experience with students of all ages. She is a Reading Specialist, has a Bachelors in Social Science, a Masters in Special Education, a Specialist in Educational Leadership, and a Doctorate in Curriculum & Instruction. Dr. Coates seeks to inspire people to continue towards their goals regardless of their current or past circumstances. She is a daughter, a wife, a doting grandmother, and a praying woman. She takes pleasure in being a servant to those in need. She takes pleasure in making a positive difference in her own life. Dr. Coates is a survivor of mental and physical abuse. Run Kasona! Run! Do not quit! I can't quit! I don't want to live like this! But I do not know who I really am- or what I am supposed to be doing with my life! Run where? I'm just going to be a chameleon! I will survive by blending into my surroundings! Run Kasona! Run! Run! Run where? Everywhere I go someone hurts me! There is no safe place! I don't understand! Run Kasona! Run! Just keep going! You are going to make it!