Our first supporter is “Santa Claus” to us. The first supporter is always special to a founder. His support accelerates the speed at which DRAFT™ technology can be harnessed to make a difference and stop disease and death due to noncompliance. Our silent supporter has long been involved with the safety industry through his work experience, but he never realized the TRUE FLAW of mainstream respiratory protective equipment until the coronavirus pandemic showed that a significant number of people do not have the desire or ability to tolerate discomfort in order to limit exposures to hazards and health risks. As “seeing is believing,” once our silent supporter tried DRAFT™ devices, he immediately saw the need for this technology to be brought to the global community. The rest is history, as in his words, “Once you try it, there is no other mask or respiratory equipment you will wear.”

With the DESIGN FLAW SOLVED™ by DRAFT™ Engineer Mark Millard, who also happens to be my husband, I am personally committed to make safe, comfortable, effective respiratory protection available worldwide. Mark and I have worked in the construction industry for years, and have always found individuals, including my husband, unwilling to protect themselves from the obvious hazards due to discomfort caused by face masks and respirators. No matter what level of safety mask or respiratory equipment I would purchase for our team members, I was unable to get most to utilize products manufactured by “big safety”to protect against particulates and toxic spraying chemicals. I personally skipped wearing respiratory equipment for past applications of weed killers and other outdoor chemicals, and I now see how unaware I was to the real potential harm I was causing to my future respiratory health. If you can smell it and taste it, you probably shouldn’t breathe it. I will continue to dedicate my life to be a change maker and make a global impact for fighting health disparities that are avoidable with comfortable safety equipment. My goal is to provide equal access to safety for all, especially those working for the benefit of another man. Education must be part of our strategy to bring forward the science of what exactly workplace exposures are doing to our bodies. My life pursuit is to bring all people affordable respiratory equipment to ensure the world has easier, safer methods of breathing.

A lifelong problem-solver, I have always been drawn to innovation and expertise, and I am dedicated to pursuing a second career in respiratory safety equipment development. DRAFT™ technology was initially developed to solve my own reluctance to wear current standards of respiratory protection over the last 40 years of my work- and hobby-related exposures to hazardous chemicals and particulates. I am proud to empower individuals to protect themselves from future lifelong respiratory diseases that eventually catch up with the radical behavior of not protecting your lungs from avoidable damage. I only wish I had invented this novel approach sooner to save others from avoidable disease and death that has impacted so many individuals just like me. It took quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic for me to finally recognize the significance of this technology and to pursue a solution to the flaw with mask and respiratory protection once and for all. I envision a world where DRAFT™ products can put a stop to noncompliance and bring better health to workers and hobbyists worldwide.