Dawn Kotcher
Client Care Associate
A 30-year resident of Ypsilanti, Dawn Kotcher had her eye on YMOW long before becoming a Client Care Associate.
“I have watched the program grow,” said Dawn, and had long considered joining the team before delivering her first meals in last December 2024.
A self-employed tutor, Dawn said she was looking for a meaningful way to spend her daytime hours. She found it in YMOW.
“It’s so much more than I every expected,” said Dawn, who especially enjoys getting to know the people on her route and doing little things to make their days easier and their lives brighter.
Bad weather makes the job extra challenging, Dawn said, but it also makes it extra rewarding when she knows seniors have the food they need when it’s extremely cold, icy, or even hot outside.
Dawn lives in Ypsilanti with her husband and their three dogs. She enjoys taking her dogs for walks and bird watching. A former gymnast and gymnastics coach, Dawn is an avid gymnastics fan who enjoys adding to her collection of autographs of Olympic gymnasts.
