August 25, 2022
What position will you be holding at MPA?
College Counselor
From what school/organization are you coming?
St. Paul’s Schools, Brooklandville, MD
Tell us about your education and past experience.
I have been working in education for a year as an English teaching assistant in Austria in 2010. After finishing graduate school at Georgetown, I taught German and global politics at the St. Paul’s Schools near Baltimore, where I also served on the college counseling team. I just wrapped up my first summer co-directing Waldsee, the German summer camp at the Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji where I have taught since 2005.
What did you find appealing about MPA?
I was struck by the earnest curiosity of the students I met at MPA; they seemed intrinsically motivated by their own desire to learn and grow, rather than by external markers of success.
What’s your big dream?
At the moment, I’m most excited to connect (and reconnect) to communities I was isolated from throughout the pandemic, and to help students do the same.
What are you (and your family, if you so choose) passionate about?
Singing fills the gaps in my soul. I joined a choir when I first moved to DC in 2011 (before even finding an apartment), and that community has been the one constant in my life through a decade of moves, grad school, teaching, and job hunting. I hope to find a similar musical avenue in MN!
What’s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?
I can fold just about any origami creature out of one square of paper, given detailed instructions. (Hedgehogs are my white whales, so to speak–too many spines–but almost any other animal is fair game.)
What position will you be holding at MPA?
What position will you be holding at MPA?
What position will you be holding at MPA?
What position will you be holding at MPA?
What position will you be holding at MPA?
What position will you be holding at MPA?
What position will you be holding at MPA? 
If you’ve been on campus lately, you’ve probably noticed something different about MPA’s pond–and not just the seasonal algae. This summer, the pond is adorned with trucks, cranes, bulldozers, gravel, and boulders. We have an exciting update about all of this action and commotion around our beloved outdoor learning lab.
What do you get when you throw spin art, bracelets, fidget spinners, slime, and other crafting activities into a camp and mix it all with a big helping of art history? Snapology’s awesome new Craft Design Maker Camp! Throughout last week, Lower School students learned about some of art’s greatest minds, as well as created some fun STEM-focused take-home projects and activities. One of the most favored activities of the week was building magma-filled volcanoes. The camp has a perfect balance of creativity and STEM-based assignments that prompt young artists to expand their creative comfort zones while developing essential hands-on and problem-based skills.