I spent 5.5 years in the classroom, teaching kindergarten, fourth grade and high school math. Then I spent a year as an Assistant Principal of Operations at KIPP Austin Arts & Letters before coming home to raise my boys. I was a 2010 Teach for America Corps member in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was selected as one of 4,500 applicants from a 46,000 person applicant pool nationwide to serve in a highly acclaimed national service corps; committed to teach for 2 years in an under-resourced urban region to close educational achievement gap. Working as an educator, I have learned the importance of high expectations, setting goals and working amid a myriad of challenges. My time in the classroom has taught me so much about the importance of education and the inequalities facing low-income children.I am also a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. I am skilled in editing, design and reporting. Specialties: Education, Organization, Efficiency, Journalism, Marketing, Editing