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Katie is an arts educator who has engaged students from preschool to adulthood in both the classroom and museum/gallery environment. As an educator she values imagination, inclusion, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and self-reflection. She earned her Masters of Education in Art in 2010 from St. Michael’s College. In 2014 her youngest son was born with complex healthcare needs and she turned her focus to parenting, advocacy, and special education. She now volunteers for the Vermont Family Network where she serves as a member of Family Faculty at the University of Vermont Medical School. In this role she shares her family’s story with future medical professionals as a way of teaching family centered care. She is also a Parent Support Parent for other parents of children with complex healthcare needs. Katie moved to Richmond, VT in 2005 where she now lives with her spouse and 2 kiddos who attend RES and CHMS. She enjoys spending time outside hiking with her dogs, biking with friends, as well as boating, fishing, and camping with her family. She joined the Mount Mansfield Unified Union School Board in 2021 because she has a desire for service to her community and wants to help guide the district's goals and ensure that those goals make progress as planned, expected, or desired by constituents. She hopes that children in our district can make authentic learning connections with the world around them and as a result feel empowered to incite change in their own lives, in the lives of others and in their communities.
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