Profile Information
Location
Montrose, CA
Country
United States
Postal Code
91020
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Education specialist
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
retired
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
1- long time teacher experience (43 years), 2- born with disability/ACEs helped me understand my own experience re: family issues, 3- am working with teacher activists to change education (our national survey just got federal legislation signed (ESSA) re: quality of work/school life. We are now developing a team of researchers to investigate the school setting re: how poor facilities, poverty, violence, lack of minority teachers, bullying/retaliation, etc., harm all who learn/work in schools. We spoke last summer with senior USDOE advisors.