Name: Alyssa Alvarez Where do you work? Funeral Directors Life Insurance Company (FDLIC) What’s your job title/what do you do? I am a Software Engineer. I do the “behind the scenes” work needed to implement new features to our many applications. This includes writing code to fix bugs and improve features to help us stay on the cutting edge of our industry. Where are you from? I spent most of my life in Marfa, Texas but moved to Alpine my sophomore year of high school. If you’

Name: Austin Butler Where do you work? Austin Butler Construction What’s your job title/what do you do? Owner. We specialize in custom homes and remodels. Where are you from? Tyler, TX If you’re not from Abilene, how long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? My family moved here four years ago from McKinney. We were wanting to come to a smaller town to get out of the Dallas traffic. What is your favorite thing about living in the Big Country? The community in