Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Black American Paralegal Student | InnovativeLegal, LLC. | Non-Attorney | Volunteer Images Here | Carrie Elizabeth Johnson's Qualifications as a Volunteer

Blog Post Written By: Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Founder & Sole Owner of InnovativeLegal, LLC. | Paralegal Student | Black American Single Mother | Former Volunteer | Not-A-Reality TV Person | Not-An-Actress | Never been a Video Vixen or Music Video Model | Not-A-Fashion Model | Not-A-Runway Model | Non-Famous Person | Not-A-Talk Show Host | Volunteer Images Version Below!

A selfie I took of myself while volunteering at Rosie's on my day off.

Carrie Elizabeth Johnson's Qualifications as a Volunteer

Carrie Elizabeth Johnson’s time as a volunteer started on the east coast first, once she entered the State of Massachusetts Jurisdiction back in September 2016. The City of Boston is a city that brings in a heavy influx of foreign travelers for several reasons such as their notable colleges that immigrants are frequently accepted in too that pursue degrees in perceived high-paying positions in either the legal profession or medical field. Another reason that the City of Boston draws in foreign workers would be for employment at some of their historic hospitals as well as the city being known for a practice area for medical students to gain experience through externships, upon completion of their college degrees. Accepting foreign travelers, the City of Boston draws in domestic travel for some of their medical procedures and specialized doctors who are already established and well nestled into their tight-knit connections that you must either know someone to get into the higher paying jobs or start from the bottom and work your way up. The downside to starting from the bottom with no connections or ties to the city is Carrie would experience sexism, racism, and white feminists projecting either directly or indirectly their own personal experiences or their own individual perception of her through either work, shelter systems, healthcare appointments, news channels or everyday interactions sometimes. She did not view the City of Boston at first as a racially segregated city as much as it is being perpetuated in the media outlets by those who know the city’s history of racial arguments between both blacks and whites that foreigners or those of the Hispanic or Latino communities are frequently the scapegoats of their secret arguments and serve as a distraction sometimes to prevent riots or demonstrations from happening.

 

Hours clocked Here on Rosie's Place Kiosk.

As the white Americans all have jobs in the government on either state or federal levels, Carrie sees the City of Boston as socially accepting of foreigners creating their own little communities within the city to disempower those in the black American communities by placing limitations on them towards being the first to benefit in ownership in either business or real estate transactions to further secure financial longevity for future generations. If there are any black Americans that do own businesses in the City of Boston it is usually in a field that perpetuates a stereotype that is seen as an acceptable business for black Americans to have such as a hair salon or accept a regular job. The African Meeting House, where Fredrick Douglas once spoke would be one of Carrie’s first visits as a working homeless person and tourist on the east coast that she would have liked to have shared that experience with her daughter. A life worth celebrating and inspiring is the life of Fredrick Douglas, a man that bought his freedom and taught himself to both read and write. With fewer distractions during that time, Fredrick Douglas took a more civilized approach to articulating himself in writing as the creator of his own newspaper called the North Star when he had disagreements with whites. One of Carrie’s earliest memories of seeing a deceased grandparent on her alleged father’s side read the old farmer’s almanac and newspaper every morning it would only be until today, she realizes that was the method that both blacks and whites would communicate their disagreements with one another was through the newspaper.

 

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In an illegal juvenile dependency court case that originated out of Orange County, California in March of 2014, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson completed her family reunification services at the request of the original presiding Judge, Andre Manssourian back in December 2014. Carrie declined both her and her underaged daughter, Skylar staying at Prototypes at the request of the overweight white female social worker, Jessica Chilton that stated she would then release Carrie’s daughter to her if they stayed at Prototypes. Her appointed government legal representation failed to represent her adequately with several civil rights violations and psychological abuse from not only the Iranian American Judge but from white government lawyers and social workers that were not documented in court records. Not to mention Carrie was not a drug addict or alcoholic at all but a former California small business owner and paralegal student at a local community college in Orange County, California from 2012-2015. Her daughter was only 8 years old, and Carrie did not like the idea of them staying in a residential substance abuse inpatient program when that was not of their personal character at all. Carrie continued attending her court appearances, scheduled both monitored and unmonitored visits with her daughter, and continued her education, working full-time and looking for housing while sleeping in her car. Since Carrie had not resolved her housing, she took the bad advice from the appointed government lawyer, Attorney Ben Azar to transfer her illegal juvenile dependency court case to Los Angeles County where he said that they were more liberalized out there without asking Carrie what her history was with the City of Los Angeles first.

 

Early Morning shift, after a night of trying to sleep at Woods-Mullen Shelter for Adult Women.

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Prior to Carrie’s illegal juvenile dependency court case, the only history that she had with the City of Los Angeles was doing her weekend drills one weekend per month and two weeks of paid training in San Luis Obispo, California years earlier, resume submissions online in response to job ads or job interviews in person that never had anything to do with the entertainment industry. Carrie sold her car and went into the County of Los Angeles blindly with the expectation of getting her daughter returned to her. Staying in various motels or even sleeping on the beach of either Long Beach or Santa Monica Pier while attending the scheduled court hearings at the Los Angeles Edelman Children’s Courthouse, Carrie accepted a one-way bus ticket to the City Boston to search for full-time employment and work her way out of homelessness as she had succeeded once before to restore her parental rights as the sole parent of her daughter. Carrie would never sign off on any documents relinquishing her rights as the sole parent of her daughter and it was expected to have had the court case transferred out to Boston at some point. Her expectations did not materialize, and she was doing culinary work for different staffing agencies in Boston while staying in different shelters like Pine Street Inn and Woods-Mullen, a wet shelter for adult women. Keeping her spending habits, the same while working, Carrie’s bank transaction history was never even requested by the government-appointed lawyers back in March of 2014 that could have saved a lot of assumptions made by government lawyers in closed discussions that Carrie was told that she was not allowed into the courtroom, and they were making decisions without her consent or knowledge.

 

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In California, Carrie successfully completed two semesters in non-paid positions in the educator sector as a teachers’ assistant and office assistant at Redlands East Valley High School which eventually led to paid positions in the education sector a few years later. While in Boston, Carrie would obtain paid positions first in the culinary industry for the following staffing agencies: Event Temps., Command Temps., SnapChef, Inc., KSM Staffing, and People Ready, while doing non-paid volunteer work for the first time at Rose’s Place for their kitchen on her days off occasionally. Carrie saw the opportunity to do volunteer work performing culinary duties as a mutually beneficial shared work experience that allowed her to give back to the community that helped her in her time of need and keep up her knife skills as she was out of the kitchen for a while. There are disadvantages to working in the City of Boston as a traveling culinarian the weather brings in heavy snow that placed limitations on her for work opportunities, as she was working around the barrier of not having a driver’s license or car and had to rely on public transportation to accept work assignments. With her frustrations with not resolving her housing and experiencing repeated hostile work environments in the City of Boston, Carrie would go on to travel to the State of New York in hopes of making some money so she can resolve her personal matters and restore her single-parent household of two.

 

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Carrie entered the State of New York City’s shelter system back in May 2018, first with the rescue mission in Manhattan, Queen of Peace Shelter for women and a drop-in center before being placed at the Delancey Holiday Inn Hotel Shelter and Catherines Street Shelter in the Lower Manhattan housing projects. Suffering a hostile work environment with People Ready of Chelsea, Massachusetts, Carrie goes on to accept work assignments with the Long Island City, People Ready staffing agency that used an app. to send her out on culinary jobs for both the State of New York and New Jersey. Done out of retaliation, Carrie was accepting jobs that were filtered into their job stacker app. that were less than desirable job locations that required her to leave lower Manhattan by 3 a.m. sometimes to travel to a corporate café in Iselin, New Jersey just to wash dishes for $12.00 dollars per hour. Leaving out of Port Authority or George Washington Bridge, Carrie would return from one day’s worth of work to lower Manhattan, New York with under $50.00 dollars net pay that could not pay any of her bills nor help to pay market rent for the location of her choice to live and finish raising her daughter. In-patient, Carrie’s stay at the Catherine Street Shelter for Women became intolerable for her and she exited the shelter and returned to the Queen of Peace Shelter for Women in Harlem, New York. A former client of New York Common Pantry, Carrie decided to do some more volunteer work for the second time, as a back-of-the-house kitchen helper while still looking for full-time employment. One day after church service, Carrie met someone that was a guitar player for the Church of St. Joseph Church Band (Catholic) in Harlem, New York that offered her a place to sleep since her 30 days stay at the Queen of Peace was coming to an end. This person that she met at the Church of St. Joseph was an employee of Beigels Bakery in Brooklyn, New York and he went to his supervisor that was his friend to talk about hiring Carrie for work in their warehouse production pastry factory. Carrie was hired the day of her application and was offered an hourly base of $15.00 dollars per hour which was still not a living salary nor enough money to quickly resolve her pre-existing IRS debt owed.

 

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Carrie was laid off from Beigels Bakery, due to an alleged slow in orders of their pastries and she took her last paycheck and checked into the Fountain Motel, located in North Bergen, NJ. She was already familiar with that location due to her previous employer, People Ready sending her out on jobs to wash dishes in Iselin, New Jersey. Through her local travel for work, Carrie saw a lot of holes-in-the-wall staffing companies that she thought she could get hired quickly to pay her bills. It would be a total of four local staffing agencies that were in proximity of each other that Carrie applied for and experienced back-to-back hostile work environments at the following companies: @WorkPersonnel, Vitality Staffing, Staff Management Group, and Full Steam Staffing that left her destitute for the entire summer of 2019. She received help from churches and slept on the street, as Perc Shelter was another intolerable co-ed shelter for adults, and was told that she could not sleep at the Grace Church in Union City, New Jersey anymore. Still working around the barrier of not having a driver’s license, Carrie continued her job search by foot and professional development self-study at the local one-stop career center in North Bergen, New Jersey. Her days were spent in the local libraries or walking up and down Bergenline Ave. to apply for work while checking in with the local staffing agencies that she had done previous work for going into the fall of 2019. She decided to take her last paycheck from Vitality Staffing to find work in Connecticut and was offered another warehouse job in Hartford, Connecticut through Expert Staffing. Her previous work experience for All Green Recycling, as a warehouse associate first qualified her for the position as another warehouse associate for a recycling company, called Republic Services.

Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Chef Manager washing dishes as a volunteer for Rosie's Place.

While being a working homeless person in the State of Massachusetts from 2016-2018, Carrie was already looking for housing for her single-parent household in the State of Connecticut that she could achieve on a living salary, based on her previous culinary work experience. For the first time, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson entered the State of Connecticut on November 29, 2019. In limbo at Hartford Union Station, some locals told her about Expert Staffing hiring for a recycling company. She put in an application on 12/6/2019 and interviewed Helen Howard on 12/11/2019. Helen Howard, the branch manager of Expert Staffing sent Carrie out to be interviewed by the on-site supervisor on 12/13/2019 and accepted the job offer that same day. She was unemployed for less than 30 days from her last paycheck through Vitality Staffing and Carrie registered for college courses as a double major at Manchester Community College on 1/13/2020. She suffered another hostile work environment on the first day of work at Republic Services she was on camera when Carrie immediately reported the incident to the floor managers inside the warehouse. Carrie sent an email to Expert Staffing’s branch manager notifying her of a change in her employment status with the company, as she felt the hostile work environment was intentionally done based on the language used by, Jessie the site supervisor. An intentionally hostile work environment that was done at her most vulnerable time, Carrie was not able to get her Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, complaint submitted within the required 300 hundred calendar days. She felt it was an unreasonable time frame to complete without a waiver for late filings to be considered or established by the Department of Labor due to extenuating circumstances. She continued with her registered classes at Manchester Community College and decided to do some volunteer work, as a tax preparer for the MCC site location through the United Way of Central & Northeastern Connecticut.

Chef Manager Certificate completed here in the State of Massachusetts with Carrie in-person.

Carrie found the volunteer opportunity through an online Google search and began her onsite training while taking her IRS exams at the University of Connecticut and The University of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut. It would be a total of six classes, Carrie would take for the Spring 2020 semester while volunteering as a tax preparer on Saturdays at MCC with the United Way of Central & Northeastern Connecticut. Carrie’s desire to learn and acquire the transferrable skill, as an individual tax preparer came from her own personal experiences with tax preparation companies that prepared both her individual and self-employed taxes in the State of California. Being aware that ultimately, she was responsible for whatever she provided to the tax preparation companies about both her individual and self-employed taxes regardless of who prepared her tax return, Carrie wanted to obtain a basic understanding of how to prepare an individual tax return to do her own personal taxes. However, Carrie was not responsible for either the Internal Revenue Service or its agents’ impulsive reactions, assumptions, or inferences that the statutory body employees may have drawn upon after receiving and reviewing her tax returns that were submitted. Making Carrie’s third time as a volunteer in the capacity of a VITA tax preparer brief cut short due to another hostile work environment after one day’s worth of work. Feeling both discouraged and exhausted, Carrie notified the United Way of Central & Northeastern Connecticut to remove her from further volunteering and she contacted the EEOC by email to report the incident that took place on the college campus but not during normal business and school operating hours.

It would be Carrie’s first and last time performing the duties and responsibilities of a tax preparer for individual tax returns to the public, back in Spring of 2020. Although her preparer tax identification number application was accepted by the IRS years prior to Carrie performing the duties and responsibilities of a tax preparer first, she had no prior work experience preparing either individual or business tax returns as a former employee of any past employer that she had worked for in the past or as a self-employed individual. She started continuing legal education, continuing practicing education, and continuing education ongoing self-study virtually that pertained to taxes first before going on to do volunteer tax preparation work for the first time in the Spring of 2020. She was eager to take the special enrollment agent exam to practice before the IRS, but her funds did not permit her to purchase the required study materials and exams which made her ineligible to practice before the Internal Revenue Service. Despite her best efforts to gain tax preparation work experience, she has not returned as a volunteer tax preparer since the Spring of 2020. As for her educational pursuits, Carrie will be returning to Riverside City College this fall of 2023 to take some required courses towards finishing up her associate degree in paralegal studies with the hopes of graduating in the Spring of 2024.