​I've been working in all kinds of classrooms since 1996, first trained through the Americorps Literacy Project. I've got a BA in Urban Policy from Occidental College's Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, where I received a Pass with Distinction for my final thesis project about the unionized workers on campus. I also completed an MA in English at Northern Arizona University, where I circled back to live in Flagstaff to write and study poetry with the late Jim Simmerman.

I never thought I would wind up being a teacher; I backed into it. Suspicious of my bright daughter's super-chipper first grade teacher, I volunteered in her Southern California public school classroom. She was an excellent teacher - devoted, joyful and also dead serious about her role. One day while we prepped a reading lesson, she offhandedly said that I should be a teacher. I was stunned. I was working as a union organizer at the time. She said simply, "You can do it, and we need you." I took it to heart. 

I'm currently the Director of the Learning Center at Stratton Mountain School, working 1:1 or in small groups with elite student athletes. Some of my students have learning exceptionalities, others need support managing academics while travelling to training and competitions around the world, chasing snow. It's a privilege to support these kinesthetic wizards and witness their dedication, endurance, and somatic brilliance. Teenagers are among my favorite collaborators. They're wise and open - riding that edge of freedom, risk and trust. I am so inspired by my students.

In recent years, I've taught English literature and composition and offered academic coaching at area schools in Vermont - the Greenwood School, Landmark College, and also Stoneleigh-Burnham School and Northfield Mount Hermon just over the border in Massachusetts. My executive functioning coaching work extends to working with younger adults outside of academic settings, too.
​My approach is individualized and flexible, in person and/or remote. 

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