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’ve been in Brazil since July 2018 and we love it. São Paulo is a really interesting city, and we enjoy the life we are living here. Graded, The American School of São Paulo, is an exciting place to work, and I spend my days with hard-working educators and lovable, energetic students.

Calvin, our oldest is now 12 and loves reading, coding, and robotics. Matilda is 10 and loves reading, dancing, drawing and swimming. Everett is 7 and is our little non-fiction obsessed professor who recently discovered a passion for Taekwondo.

At Graded, I have coached the elementary swim team, and served as 7th and 9th grade level leader. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, running 5K races, and playing the mandolin.

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