Today we are spotlighting Lupita Ogle in our WIC (Women, Infants, Children) department. Lupita is part of a team that gets a first-hand glance at families who are in need. 
WCCC: Lupita, please tell us how you came to be a part of the West Central WIC staff.
Lupita Ogle: I was working at a church and heard that West Central had a job for someone who was bilingual and I knew that I had to have it! I came to apply, now I am here and I love it!
WCCC: What is the best part about your job?
LO: Interaction with people. The language barrier can be challenging because people don’t want to open up to the accent.
WCCC: What is the hardest part about your job?
LO: Really wanting to help people but feeling helpless after giving them a list of resources. We get lots of people who are homeless or are in need of food and there isn’t much I can do but give them phone numbers.
WCCC: Where are you from?
LO: I am from Mexico. I met my husband there, never even dreamed of coming to the United States. He was very persistent. He wouldn’t leave me alone! I was always getting letters from him. He was in the military so wherever he was stationed I was always getting letters. After 3 years, we got married and moved here almost 20 years ago!
WCCC: Your husband leads a group of the Wounded Warrior Project, can you tell us more about that?
LO: Well it is a very private group, so I can’t say much. I am so proud of him. He goes through training and mentors these men. He spends a lot of time with them and does everything he can to help them, which also helps him.
WCCC: If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do?
LO: First things first, finish my house. Then I would buy a house for the kids and fix up the house that I grew up in in Mexico. Then I would help lots and lots of people.
WCCC: What did you always want to be when you grew up?
LO: I always wanted to be a psychologist but didn’t have the resources to pursue it. I ended up going to school for business.
WCCC: What is the hardest thing you have ever done?
LO: Being away from my family in Mexico. I wish that we could be together. Either everyone comes up here or all of us goes down there.
WCCC: If you weren’t working for WIC, what would you be doing?
LO: Probably still working at the church I was working at before I got this job. Probably, yes, probably.
WCCC: Thank you so much Lupita for giving us an inside into your life. You are such a beautiful person inside and out, is there anything else that you would like to share?
LO: I don’t think so, I am a pretty private person and you asked lots of questions!!