Year: MA 2015 
Social Studies Teacher (Leicester, MA) 

“I am a social studies teacher in Leicester, MA. In addition to teaching, I also coached basketball, am a member of the District History Curriculum Committee, serve as a Tech Integration Specialist, and mentor an Egyptian foreign exchange teacher with the US State Department's Teachers of Critical Languages Program. This past summer I participated in an archaeological dig in Ireland of a medieval Celtic homestead. The skills that I learned and practiced in the UVM History Master's program, particularly in research, evaluating the credibility of sources, and assistant teaching, have been invaluable contributions to my current endeavors. Equally important were the mentorship and faith I received from professors like Andrew Buchanan, Dona Brown, and Amani Whitfield.”