I started with the Northland Association of Pharmacy Technicians (NAPT) which is a group of pharmacy technicians in North Dakota. I served on the steering committee for that organization back when it was formed. With the technician association, we started hosting annual conferences and then we as a group had a voice and spoke up and said that we believe that there should be a pharmacy technician seat on the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy.
And through my years, not only did I grow in my position on the board but then I grew my contacts. I became great friends with a lot of the folks over at PTCB as well as ASHP and sort of became a national voice trying to make a change. A lot of people feel like we haven’t made any changes. But when we look back at where we started, we’ve made pretty significant changes. They’ve just been kind of slow and steady.