Top Priorities
- Assure Bethel offers high quality education to all children
- Serve on curriculum committee if possible
- My expertise is in literacy, language arts, and children’s and young adult literature, so help with those areas however I can
Why are you running?
I’ve learned how Republicans a decade or more ago got themselves on local committees and boards and want to help out my political party in the same way. I am, of course, concerned about the Trump administration and want to do whatever I can to help out
Biography
I have lived in Bethel for 38 years, raised my children here, love the town, and have no intention of leaving, I was a Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh. I semi-retired in 2020 but still adjunct at the Mount, specializing in literacy, language arts, children’s and young adult literature, and teaching a course, Genocide in Literature and Art. I have co-written a middle grade biography on Katalin Kariko, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2023 for her work on mRNA, that gave us the vaccine during COVID. I have also written a memoir.
Background and Experience
Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor, Mount Saint Mary College
Through Integrated Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS), tutor Afghan refugees in English
Lead Junior Great Books program, Bethel
Volunteer, Girl Scouts
Acting Associate Dean, Department Chair, Chair and member of numerous committees.
Chair of the Anne Devereaux Jordan Committee, Children’s Literature Association
Curator, Collaborative for Equity in Literacy Learning (CELL)
PhD, New York University
MA, Northwestern University
BA, Colorado College