As a child, I always knew I wanted to be a teacher. In high school, I applied for the NC Teaching Fellows Scholarship and was awarded a full ride to East Carolina University in 2008 to begin fulfilling that dream. I graduated from ECU in 2012 with a degree in Elementary Education and began teaching in my hometown of Hope Mills, NC, where I taught for 5 years. Because I love to continually learn, I decided to pursue my master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction and completed it in 2017 from Gardner-Webb University. In 2017, my husband and I decided to make Wilmington our home. I taught 4th and 5th grade in Wilmington for three years before I went back to school again to add on the AIG Licensure and became the AIG Specialist for K-5 at Blair Elementary from 2020-2023. 

My husband and I welcomed our son, Sutton, in January 2020. We have two Golden Retrievers named Ella Grace and Airlie who are six and one and a half, respectively.  In my spare time, I love to read, go out on our boat, go to the beach, travel and shop!