👊🏼 Entrepreneur | Innovator 🤝Non-profit leader | Advocate for youth prosperity, safety, belonging, and mental well-being 📚Passionate lifelong learner sparked by curiosity, intrigued by opportunity, and inspired by connections. 👩‍🎓MBA 👩‍🎓BA in Education 🔖 Certified Wellness Recovery Action Plan instructor’s trainer 🖼 17 years teaching in Montessori environment 🤟🏻32 years working with and advocating for youth of all ages 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Mother and wife devoted to family 🎨Artist | Author 🤝 Guiding schools to incorporate empathy, restorative practices, and social-emotional wellness into district and classroom environments. We have the power and are responsible to shift our culture to embrace mental health and create schools that are havens of healing. 👊🏼Proponent of implementing restorative practices and restorative justice in classrooms and schools. ❤️#Metoo survivor. Thriving and sharing my reclaimed power to empower youth who experience trauma. 📕Author published with: Clarion, Charlesbridge, Greenwillow, Heinemann Library, Cherry Lake, Enslow, KidHaven, Norwood House, The Education Center 🎨🖌🖼 Contemporary artist and former art teacher. Implemented project-based problem solving and leveraged STEAM concepts to develop confidence and innovative qualities within all students. ❤️travel❤️family❤️food❤️birds❤️plants❤️authentic expressions of the human experience