New Faces All Around: New Teachers Come to Western

What’s your background? - I attended the College of Charleston where I played soccer and studied marine biology. I later worked as a fisheries biologist, then finally went to UVA to get my masters in teaching.   What jobs did you have before this one? - I was first an ice cream scooper, then a swimming and soccer coach, and then a marine/ fisheries biologist.   What is somet...

What’s your background? I started off as a teacher at Lee Davis High School in Richmond teaching precalculus, Algebra, and Geometry. Just normal math classes. After about 10 years there, I moved to Hanover High School and was there for a couple more years. Then after that we moved back to Crozet, where I grew up. Then I taught at CATEC, I taught math there. Then I went to middle school to tea...

What is your background? My family is originally from Laos, in Southeast Asia. My parents immigrated in the 1980’s and were refugees during the Vietnam war. I grew up in Northern Virginia, which is where my 14-year-old brother and family currently live. My younger brother is still in High School, and I am now in my first year out of college. I went to the University of Virginia where I studie...

Where are you from? I am from Springfield, Massachusetts. I lived in a neighborhood called Sixteen Acres.   What is your background?/ What jobs did you have before this? I was a first-year experience librarian for the last four years at the University of Virginia (UVA), a middle school literature teacher at Saint Joan of Arc in Chicopee, Massachusetts, a bank teller at the Suntrust Bank,...

What is your background?  I am from Lynchburg. I went to the University of Georgia, and I majored in Social Studies Education. I taught mostly Government and Economics for four years in Georgia. My husband Tyler and I moved here, and a couple of months later our first son Reid was born. Now, we have three kids, named Jack, Tess, [and Reid]. After having my children, I decided to stay home to help t...