Name: Tenika Dye
Age: 34
Occupation: Artistic Direct or of the Salvation Army 614 Corps’ Recreate Café
Theologian Frederick Buechner once said, “The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all.” This is Tenika Dye’s favorite quote, and she gets to see it come to life every day with her work in the Recreate Café. Through her acting classes and other creative offerings, homeless and non-homeless Chattanoogans have a chance to join together, create and be heard.
Even if you have experienced something really awful in your life, if you tell that story and that experience and someone else listens to it, there’s an opportunity for that experience to not be wasted. There’s so many times where you hear something from somebody and you think, “Me too.”