As a native New Englander and someone who’s lived on the east coast my whole life, being a new member of the Thacher community is part of the greatest adventure of my life. After growing up on Cape Cod and going to public school there, I quite literally stumbled into independent schools after graduating from Providence College with a degree in English and a desire to work in education, but, hold onto your hats, not be a teacher. I was thrilled to learn that there actually was a place for me in schools without being in the classroom, and I’ve been merrily serving as an admission counselor, financial aid director and advisor for the last twelve years. Before coming to Thacher, I worked at Buckingham Browne and Nichols, a day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts – a school that became my home for nine years. Now that I’ve made myself a California girl, I’m thrilled to be working in the admission office at Thacher, advising sophomore girls in the Hill and living (gulp) in Los Padres with the sophomore boys.
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