Ms. Screeton is a Grammy-nominated Music Educator, as well as a liturgist, writer, and performer. She was a Truman Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School where she received a Master of Public Administration in public policy and performing arts management.
She has taught music education and choral music since 2000. While at Fort Worth Country Day, she was honored with an endowed chair in Fine Arts. Through her educator career she has also received the Bayard Friedman award for excellence in Music Teaching from the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Score a Goal in the Classroom award for Music Education, won a Hummer H2 from the Hummer Hero Awards for outstanding music educator, and was named a teacher scholar at The George Washington Teacher Institute at Mount Vernon and at the Carnegie Hall Foundation in New York.
She currently is completing her Doctorate of Musical Arts and also a Master's in Evangelization and Culture through the Word of Fire Institute at The Catholic University of America. She is fulltime Director of Music and Liturgy at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Defiance, where she makes her home with a musical mutt named Malachi, and a very cool Cat Masterson. She is an avid bird watcher, reader, and painter.