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Name: Charli Bohm Bosniak

Occupation: Real estate agent for Coldwell Banker

Address: Ocean Township

Family: Divorced from Ron Bohm, remarried for six years to Eric Bosniak. Three children: Sara, 16; Max, 13; and Jacob, 4; and dogs Lulu and Billy.

Community activities: Assisting son Max in creating a non-profit organization -- the Maxwell Bohm Foundation -- to raise funds and awareness for social action causes. To celebrate Max's bar mitzvah on March 8, the foundation is sponsoring a benefit concert for the Interfaith Neighbors of Asbury Park featuring November Rain at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, with all gifts and donations going to the Interfaith Neighbors Youth Corps.

Hobbies: "I love tennis, reading, scrabble, and cooking."

Self-portrait:"I'm someone who perseveres and has the best possible attitude. I keep my head up, keep plugging forward, and do the best I can. I'm a type-A personality."

Motto:"It's not what happens to you in life, it's how you deal with it."

Greatest achievement: "My children."

Bad habits: "I can be a little take charge of a situation."

Favorite TV: "Gray's Anatomy".

Favorite food: "Lasagna."

Best childhood memory: "I have three sisters and two brothers. One of my sisters, Angie, and I would have to share a bed when we were little and would sing to me when I was little. I would think that she had the most beautiful voice. And now when she sings, she sings so badly. She will send me a birthday card and sing happy birthday, because I told her when I was younger how beautifully she sang. So it's the running joke of the family."

People don't know that I... "started my first business when I was 22 and opened a hair salon in Shrewsbury."

Last book I read: "Marley and Me," by John Grogan.

The biggest asset in the local Jewish communities: "We have a JCC and it brings people together."

The biggest problem in the local Jewish communities: "For me my biggest challenge was finding my niche. I converted years ago with one to one lessons with Rabbi Freedman. Then I went through a divorce, and felt out of place. But I stayed (in the community) because I wanted my children to be in the same town and have the same friends and school and be a synagogue. I remarried and we're still here and members of Temple Beth El, Oakhurst."

If I had more time, I would... "Be alone with the kids -- that would be the best -- alone without cell phones and texting."