“I’m originally from Long Island. I lived there for 19 years but moved to Lake Placid with my family so they could grow up here. I like that my kids grow up in this extraordinary, tight-knit community, with lots of fun stuff to do and lots of sports and outdoor activities that keep them busy. I like the little village feel of Lake Placid and all the events that come to town. I live in the middle of town, where it gets noisy during all the events, but it’s fun to see all the people who come here excited and happy to be in Lake Placid.
“I have been working at Northwood for six years as the school psychologist and the director of the Learning Center. I counsel kids, and I work with students to help build their academic skills so they can be more successful in their classes. When I was younger, I didn’t plan on being a psychologist. My early degree was in human development, then I went for my school psychology master’s and liked it. I was a school psychologist before I came to Northwood. When I arrived, I started working with Brenda Coton who previously ran the Learning Center and helped create the program before I took over.
“My favorite part of working at Northwood is helping students build academic skills and then watching them do more on their own and be successful. It’s fun to be able to watch the progression. I enjoy seeing how the skills they learn in the Learning Center can be useful throughout their lives. I also enjoy the colleagues I work with. They are all fun, probably the most out of any place I’ve worked.
“Outside of being at Northwood, I like to hang out with my four kids, visit my family, run, and travel sometimes. My favorite place to travel is in Europe, the city, or back to Long Island to visit the beaches I grew up on.
“My favorite food is probably pizza. And a fun fact about me that most people don’t know is that when I was a young adult I worked for an artist and painted pottery, which is not like me at all because I’m not very artsy. I did that for almost two years, and it was a funky weird job that I really liked and was totally different from anything I’ve ever done or probably ever will do again.”
As told to Maegan Byrne ’24. Photo by Maegan Byrne.
