Art
I couldn’t be more jazzed to be a part of the dynamic and creative William Smith School where I’ll be able to work alongside exceptional educators, families and students that share a similar vision of life, adventure and education. I moved to Colorado from Portland, Maine a handful years ago, yet have lived in a variety of places throughout the country. I have an undergraduate degree in photography from The Evergreen State College and a Masters degree in elementary education from Antioch University New England. Before attending graduate school I worked as a photography teacher, Colorado River guide, rock climbing instructor and community volunteer. Before Willaims Smith I taught visual arts at Rocky Heights Middle School and at the Renaissance Elementary EL School in Castle Rock, Colorado for 9 years. I grew up just west of St. Louis, in Huckleberry Finn'land, between the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers playing outside in the dirt and building things. Like Huck, I made a lot of choices that ended poorly and fantastically--choices guided by struggle, innocent curiosity, an innate sense of social justice and hastiness. Some of my favorite adventures have been traveling from the southern tip of South America to St. Louis, Missouri, by land, hiking a desolate 62 mile section of the Inca Trail in Bolivia, Burning Man Festival, learning to spear fish from Indonesian Bajau sea gypsies, the thirty-two days paddling the Bonnet Plume River in Canada’s Yukon Territory with the National Outdoor Leadership School, two months exploring remote islands in the Philippines, 14-days bike-packing 1000+ miles of CO's back roads, five months cultural immersion in Central America, hitch hiking the Panama Canal, three years living and teaching on an island in Maine and youthful summers spent in the Ozark Mountains chasing ghost and swimming in crystal clear spring fed rivers. I've had a blessed life and my list of adventures and experiences are expansive. If you'd like to swap stories let me know, because I get a kick out of sharing mine and truly enjoy hearing about others tales. However grandiose or trivial, people and their perspective make my world go round. I love being outside, the arts, listening to music, NPR, the truth, ingenuity, silence, the underdog, dreadlocks, mohawks, diversity, geography, splitting wood, the sound of thunder, the smell of rain, possibility, introspection, home and time spent with friends and family.
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