Missy transferred to Lake Street in July 2022 from a hospital in Southwest Michigan where she was born and raised. She remembers in Kindergarten saying that she wanted to be a vet when she grew up. She graduated from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI. She also lived in Lakeview, Chicago from 2011-2014. She loves all animals but is a self-proclaimed cat lady and has 3 cats, Sir Thomas O’Malley, June Bug, and Alexander Hamilton.