Feb. 6, 2023 2:30p
(WGTD)---Ardis Mahone-Mosely, the eldest child of noted Kenosha community activists Mary Lou and Arthur Mahone, is a reluctant award winner. “I do what I do because it’s the right thing to do,” she said on a recent edition of WGTD’s Education Matters.
Next month Mahone-Mosely will be awarded the annual Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award.
For the past 20 years, Mahone-Mosely has been working as a parent/teacher liaison social worker at Kenosha’s Lincoln Middle School.
What motivates her? “I do it because when you look into kids’ faces and you see their eyes and you see the tears and then when they hug you…”
It’s not unusual for Mahone-Mosely to respond to crisis situations in off hours. “I’ve left my house many a night at 11, 12 o’clock…'cause the phone was ringing and it would be so and so and, okay,’ I’m on my way’…to know that I stopped them from making a poor choice that not only would affect them but their family and the community.”
Mahone-Mosely has a hard edge when situations warrant, and isn’t afraid to tell kids the truth. “When I meet a child I have to tell them I used to be you--understand that--and (I’ll tell them) you stink, and I stunk, but we’re going to make this work.
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