About me: The long story.

I’m a third culture kid. I lived in Cincinnati until age ten when I moved with my parents to Mexico City for my dad’s job at Procter & Gamble. I attended The American School Foundation (ASF). At the end of 6th grade, we moved from Mexico City to Caracas, Venezuela, and lived there until I graduated from high school at Escuela Campo Alegre (ECA). In my years abroad, I had the privilege of receiving an innovative international education and traveling around the world. I’m fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and I have a bilingual IB Diploma.

I earned a BA in theater and Spanish from Case Western Reserve University in the gem that is Cleveland, Ohio. I studied abroad during my junior year at the British American Drama Academy in London, where I studied Shakespeare and classical acting technique, stage combat, period dance, and physical comedy.

Upon graduating from CWRU, I moved to New York City to get my Master’s degree in education at New York University. I have also done graduate level coursework at George Washington University and the University of New Hampshire, taking classes on teaching writing and educational linguistics. I spent the first 4 years of my career teaching in New York City, first at a NYC DOE public school, and then a charter school. It was during my second year of teaching that I met my husband, David, a teacher at another school in the same network. Teaching in New York City was an seminal experience for me, and I feel lucky to have cut my teeth there as a teacher. It was a vibrant, diverse place to work, and I worked with many smart, funny, resilient educators.

After getting married, my husband and I decided to move to Nashville, Tennessee to embark on a new adventure closer to both of our families. For seven years, David and I taught at Harpeth Hall, an amazing independent all-girls school. When we moved to Nashville in 2011, we went from renting a 400 square-foot, 5th floor walk up, to owning a 1935 bungalow in East Nashville with a backyard. We brought our three kids home from the hospital to that house. In addition to raising our kids, we kept bees, had a little flock of backyard hens, and grew a vegetable garden.

In 2017 we decided that we were ready to start a new adventure: international teaching. We took jobs at Graded, The American School of São Paulo, and moved there in July 2018 with a 6 year old, a 3 year old and a 1 year old. We spent 7 years in Brazil, traveling around South America and exploring the vast beauty that is Brazil. At Graded, I taught middle school humanities and journalism, and then moved back to high school English. As much as it was invigorating to take a break from high school for a time, I have realized that high school is my home.

For many years, I coached the lower school swim team at Graded. I began coaching swim because my own kids were swimming, but I enjoyed developing a different kind of pedagogy with an age group that I didn’t regularly interact with.

In July 2025, we started our next chapter in Amman, Jordan at the American Community School. We had never been to Asia or the Middle East, and we have enjoyed diving into a new culture and language. I have also appreciated a new professional chapter as subject area leader for the high school English department. I have been very lucky to have worked with amazing department heads in the past, and I am using their examples of leadership to develop my own.

After school at ACS, I have begun leading an SAT prep and practice activity. Back at Harpeth Hall, I was trained as an SAT tutor so that we could offer our students free support, and I am enjoying continuing to pay that training forward.

I have continued to run in Amman; David and I ran the Amman Marathon 10K in October 2025. It was pretty amazing to run by Roman ruins! I also enjoy reading and writing, and playing the mandolin. In 2024, I started collecting old typewriters, with my collection numbering 5 right now. I tend to prefer portable typewriters from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Tinkering, tuning, cleaning and maintaining them is honestly as fun as writing with them! In 2026, I’m attempting to write a typewriter poem every day.

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