On a crumpled piece of paper, written out in pencil and hanging in her Gilbert kitchen, Lisa Abelar has a Maya Angelou quote: “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude about it.”
With that motto in mind and the experience gained from years of surviving domestic violence, Abelar built a nonprofit, For Your Record, that covers court fees, service charges and public records requests for survivors of domestic violence and other crimes.
"That was my frame of thought,” Abelar said about the paper. “‘OK, I don’t like what happened and how this thing turned out for me and my kids, but I can’t change it. So then what can I do?’”
