Annette has lived and worked in the Metro Atlanta area for the past thirty years. She has worked in local emergency room departments and is now a certified case manager, keeping close ties to her community and helping to navigate the HC. Annette and her husband have raised four children in Cobb County. Their eldest son, Jeff, began abusing pain pills, recreationally, at the age of fifteen years old and has spent the past fifteen years in and out of the prison system. Annette is presently volunteering with the nursing team at The Zone and is passionate about being an advocate for the recovery community.