T. Yvette Walker (T. Y. Walker) is a native of Virginia. She briefly resided in Washington, D.C. and Charlottesville, VA for a number of years. While in Virginia she worked in accounting, banking, administrative services, and the hospitality industry while caring for a family of her own. She was abruptly uprooted due to PKD, a genetic kidney disease, to her family's hometown in Georgia where she received support from family and friends as she received dialysis, a double nephrectomy, and a deceased organ donor kidney transplant. She currently is a Transplant Mentor and Kidney Health Coach.