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   WHO AM I   

 

I am a native of Hayden, Colorado of the United States, a small farming and agricultural community just west of the great Rocky Mountains, where I grew up surrounded by goats, chickens, donkeys, cats, dogs, wheat fields, sage brush and chokecherries. I spent my time learning classical and jazz piano, playing basketball and reading of faraway places.

After studying music therapy, philosophy and sociology, I naturally gravitated towards education and worked full-time as a special education teacher in both Colorado and Arizona. While I have worked with a wide – range of student populations, my three years working with a very diverse group of at-risk high school students, who included many Navajo and Apache Native American youth, has been my greatest challenge and greatest joy thus far in my professional career, solidifying my pure passion for service-learning and reciprocal pedagogy.

After 10 years in public education, I decided it was time for a new kind of adventure and began working for an international hiking and biking travel organization. I recently returned to my roots in Northwest Colorado where I have had the pleasure of reconnecting and meeting new people who share my desire and effort to create environmental and economic sustainability; working with both small businesses and local non-profits to not only implement local-food production practices, but also provide alternative educational opportunities therein.

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