email: lakem@fortmillschools.org

phone: 803-835-0497

location: Guidance Suite

I am passionate about my family, faith, travel, sports (Go Wolfpack!), reading, and good food.  Right out of college I worked for several years in food marketing and then transitioned into HR.  I landed in education purely by chance, but realized after a few weeks that working with students was my true calling. After spending 22 years teaching Family & Consumer Sciences at the middle school level, I finally graduated to high school!  I am extremely excited to help Nation Ford students discover their own passions to lead them to a meaningful career later and teach them the career readiness skills to also be successful!