brunettechicagogal
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Ph.D. student/former teacher |
| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Former high school teacher and journalist, pursuing a doctorate in education policy with a focus on issues surrounding teacher retention. I want to help make our neediest schools places where effective, caring teachers stay, and increase public school teachers' input into the policy decisions that affect the important work they do. I'm also a runner and ever-hopeful single woman settling back in to life in the kinder, gentler (albeit sometimes chillier!) Windy City after two years in the insanity that is New York City. |
| Interests | Education policy, politics, live music, running, travel, reading, writing, singing |
| Favorite movies | Shawshank Redemption, When Harry Met Sally, Dr. Zhivago, Crash, With Six You Get Eggroll (great Doris Day/Brian Keith sleeper from the 60s), Pillow Talk, Pulp Fiction |
| Favorite music | Alt-country bands like Wilco, Whiskeytown and the Jayhawks; Golden Smog, Stereophonics, Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Coldplay, U2, Van Morrison, Snow Patrol, kd lang, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis...I love music! |
| Favorite books | Geek Love The Time Traveler's Wife Confederacy of Dunces To Kill a Mockingbird anything by David Sedaris Flannery O'Connor's short stories |
In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?
The school is under-resourced and therefore has no pool.