About me

I have been working with children for over ten years. I started teaching dance and demonstrating at the dance company I trained with in Nashville when I was fourteen years old. After that, I became a dance instructor during summer break from college, working with inner city youth teaching hip-hop, contemporary, and praise dance. While I was completing my undergraduate degree at NYU I babysat for various families throughout the city, taking care of as many as three children. I would often travel to the Hamptons for long weekend stays with the families, and then eventually I started work as a full time nanny for a 14-year-old boy on the Upper East Side.
   
After graduating from NYU, I moved to Los Angeles to continue pursuing a career in performance, both acting and writing. I worked full time for a family my entire time there helping with their 2-year-old son. He is now 7 years old, and although I moved back to NY we still talk weekly. He's the greatest kid ever. I left that position to attend graduate school in London, working on my Masters in Classical Theatre. I received my degree in October.
   
To me, there is something incredibly unique and cool about having to opportunity to spend your day helping a child become who they are going to be. When you work with kids, you have the enormous responsibility of fostering a creative, safe, learning environment which oftentimes is equal parts exhausting and amazing. Watching a child use a fork for the first time (it's hard), develop their own sense of humor (hilarious), or go potty by themselves (gross but thrilling cause now you don't have to change diapers) is absolutely the most rewarding thing in the world.
   
I write often, and get a little thrill from completing puzzles. I have driven across the U.S four times; lived in Nashville, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and London. I average reading a book a week; and have a three year plan to own a dog. I talk to my parents every day, and want to be like them when I grow up. My proudest role yet, is aunt to my 3-year-old nephew.