After high school I went to Whitworth College in Spokane, WA. I majored in elementary education, played intramural soccer, and was active in campus leadership. During my college years I was president of my dorm, a resident assistant, and an information desk manager. I spent summers working on the program staff at Camp Sawtooth in Ketchum and as a conference assistant for Whitworth. During my senior year of college I went to Spain for Jan term where I taught English to primary students. I did my student teaching in a 2nd grade classroom.
After graduating from Whitworth in 2004 I moved back to Heyburn. I taught summer school and then spent the next two years teaching 3rd grade at Mountain View Elementary School in Burley. I also volunteered with People to People’s Student Ambassador Program and travelled to Washington DC and Los Angeles as a facilitator.
In 2006 I married Tyler Van Haaften, my college sweetheart, and moved to Seattle where Tyler is a software engineer at Microsoft and I work in an elementary school. In the past few years I have also volunteered at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, distributed food at a local food bank, hung out with kids living in transitional housing, taken art classes, and played on a dodgeball team.
In 2009 Tyler and I bought our first house and moved to the suburbs. We recently built our own arcade. We enjoy camping, hanging out in our own backyard, going to Seattle Sounders games, and playing ping pong.
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