·        Glenda Bennett used to design and make Diné (Navajo) inspired handbags, but people stopped buying when the coronavirus hit.

·        She shut down her business and trained to become a semi-truck driver, and now crisscrosses the country with a different perspective behind the wheel of a Freightliner Cascadia tractor.

·        Bennett told the Navajo Times her trainer recommended she carry a weapon after she explained to him how often indigenous women are targeted by criminals.

The coronavirus has forced all of us to make changes in our lives, but not many have gone from designing handbags to driving long-haul trucks. That's exactly what Glenda Bennett, a 34-year-old Diné (also known as Navajo) from Arizona, did when things got tough earlier this year.

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