About

I’ve lived in Piedmont for almost 15 years. Both my children started kindergarten at Wildwood and are now at PMS and PHS. Through the years, I’ve jumped into school matters whenever I felt I could be helpful:

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• Bringing parents together to recommend an elementary bell schedule that protected library and the arts

• Streamlining parent communications at Wildwood

• Bringing many of our town’s parent affinity groups together to draft a recommended ‘playbook’ for handling challenging student behavior

• Speaking up for improved resources for kids with learning differences

• Helping the District Technology Advisory Committee update policies and practices to reflect the opportunities and risks of AI

• Working with parents to recommend how PUSD might experiment with no-phone campuses.

 

My husband is a professional artist and college professor who also helps with the PUSD Engineering Lab. Ensuring our kids and their peers have the best educational experience in our public schools is of paramount importance to us. 

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My professional career has focused on incorporating public interest needs in software development, with positions from chief of staff to public policy and engineering across companies like Mozilla, Sun Microsystems, and several start-ups. I would bring this deep experience in community engagement, operations, and innovation to the Board of Education as it guides PUSD through the upcoming years.

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I am a product of the K-12 public education system in the small town of Lexington, Ohio and majored in government and economics at Dartmouth College. I also believe that there are many paths to personal fulfillment in our children’s educational experience – and that helping our kids to internalize this and build their own flexible and healthy scaffolding for success is essential in a world that’s changing so quickly.