D.A. Academy of NC Hailing from the beautiful island of Hawaii, Ruby Jones is a young, passionate, and successful entrepreneur. She is the owner and director of D.A. Academy of North Carolina Inc., a fully licensed dental assisting proprietary school. She is also the president of NC G.E.M.S. Girls Empowerment Organization, a nonprofit organization that supports the continuous growth of young women. If that wasn’t enough to her busy, her most gratifying roles are those of being a dedicated mother to three daughters, sister, and friend. D.A. Academy of NC offers a Dental Assistant 1 course which allows students to enter the dental field with an array of skills. With her instruction, they are equipped to perform alongside to a dentist. She offers a fast paced, 12-week program that is full of lectures and hands on training, and with successful completion students will graduate and receive five different, yet significant certificates that qualify them to assist dentist with their important treatments. Ruby is also a certified NC Dental Radiology & NC Coronal Polishing instructor. Dental Assisting is a very fulfilling career with room for growth as experience is gained. Many students go back to school for additional credentials such as Coronal Polishing. “I love helping people,” Ruby says. “My current and previous students thank me all day long for being an awesome instructor. My goal is to see other women earn a solid income and improve the overall quality of their life. You aren’t a boss if you can’t put people on. It’s bigger than me. I believe that it’s about allowing God to use me for His purpose, and that’s educating people about the importance or oral health, getting people on a career track that will help them grow and provide job placement and moral support. That qualifies me as a Boss.”
“You aren’t a Boss if you can’t put people on” Ruby is inspired mostly by her roots. “No one believes me when I said I’m from the ‘Hood of Hawaii’, or the west side where no tourist care to explore,” says Ruby. Her mother birthed six children and raised them in a two-bedroom duplex, along with her cousins, older siblings’ friends. Ruby describes her mother as a strong believer of the Lord and hard worker and wouldn’t change anything about her childhood. “I’m thankful for my upbringing and I promised myself to never go back to living in poverty,” she says.
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