Ms. Moore grew up in a noisy family of eight in New Jersey near New York City. She received a BA from Tulane University where she studied architecture and history. After taking an amazing ceramics class at Newcomb College during her senior year, she pursued a BFA and a teaching certificate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ms. Moore holds an MEd in Curriculum and Instruction from UIC. Prior to teaching high school, Ms. Moore worked as an editor for Times Mirror Magazines, as a private investigator in NYC, and as a teacher at Orleans Parish Women's Prison in New Orleans. 

For the past ten years, Ms. Moore has taught filmmaking and photography at ETHS, where she sponsors the Filmmakers Club and founded Students Without Borders, an organization supporting immigrant and undocumented students. Before ETHS, she taught at Senn Arts and spent 14 years at Lane Tech High School, where she earned the College Board Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts and was named Illinois High School Art Educator of the Year in 2014. In 2024, she was honored as District 202 ETHS Teacher of the Year and Cook County Co-Regional Teacher of the Year.

Ms. Moore lives near the Harms Woods with her family. Her spouse teaches English at Hinsdale South High School, and they have three children. She has a daughter at Reed College in Portland studying computer science, a son studying electrical engineering at The Cooper Union in NYC, and her youngest daughter graduated in 2025 and is on a gap year before attending Oberlin College to study pre-med and music next fall. When she’s not teaching, you can find Ms. Moore working in her garage studio making stop-motion animations and pottery, or playing catch with her ball-obsessed dog Teddy. She loves traveling, climbing mountains, and backpacking all over the US and Canada. Her hobbies are cooking, gardening, and watching documentaries and international films.