Personal As a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, I love living in the Triangle! I completed my bachelor's degree in history at East Carolina University and my master's degree in library and information sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have worked in school libraries since 2002, taking off five years total since then after the births of my two children. In my time away from school I enjoy spending time with my kids and "framily," hiking, camping, kayaking, watercolor painting, taking nature photography, reading (historical fiction, psychological thrillers and books about witches, magic, time travel, and all things books or library related) and quilting.
School Libraries I love helping students find the right book that inspires a love of reading in them as well. With experience teaching in elementary, high and now middle school levels, on traditional and year-round calendars, in regular and two different magnet school settings, teaching on a fully fixed, fully flex and part-fix/part-flex schedules and with a wide-range of school populations, I can honestly say I have learned a lot! My favorite school assignments have been where I have had time to effectively meet with classroom teachers during their planning periods and/or on their planning days to collaborate and co-teach thoroughly developed, engaging lessons.
Outside of School Outside of my school-based role I enjoy serving as a mentor for new school librarians, facilitating the district's PLT for other school library media coordinators working towards their initial or maintaining their National Boards Certification, and serving on the Wake NCAE Leadership and Organizing Committees for WCPSS SLMCs. In June 2023 I was selected as one of five out of 224 WCPSS SLMCs to be a member of a two-year cohort to pursue my NC Environmental Educator Certification, which I completed in May 2025.