About Me

I am in my 18th year of teaching and my 17th year teaching here in Lawson. I have spent most of my life in the Kansas City metro area.

I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Spanish Education from Missouri Western State University in Saint Joseph, Missouri. I completed my Master's degree in Romance Language and Literature in the Spanish language from the University of Missouri Kansas City. 

I have traveled four times to a Spanish Speaking country. The first time I lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for a month in 2003 and attended a Language Immersion program during my Bachelor's degree. The second time I traveled to Puerto Peñasco, Mexico with a mission trip to help as a translator in 2004. I traveled to Salamanca, Spain in 2015 for three weeks with the University of Central Missouri.  I most recently traveled to Granada, Spain in 2017 for six weeks with UMKC to finish my Master's degree.