Though home for me is now Robbins House (a girls’ house at Milton), I still tell people I’m from Cumberland, Maine ­ that’s where I grew up and went to public high school. Reluctant to leave the state so soon, I went to Colby College, graduating with a B.A. in government. After working in the public policy arena in Washington, DC for a couple of years, I moved to Philadelphia, where I received my M.S.Ed. in higher education administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

In February of 1996, I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time when Milton needed someone to fill an opening in its College Office. My husband, James, and I live on Milton’s campus in Robbins House, a dorm of 40 girls in Classes IV-I, with our golden retriever, Maddy. (James commutes to Wellesley High School where he is a school counselor and football and track coach.) In addition to college counseling and house parenting, I am the faculty advisor to the Jewish Student Union and a member of the Outreach Team. In the past, I have interviewed prospective students for the office of admission, taught a section of Human Sexuality and Relationships, and worked on search committees to find the Director of the Mountain School and Milton’s chaplain. I have also previously been involved with the planning of the Boarding Staff Conference, a program for faculty who are new to living and working in boarding schools.

For fun during the winter, I ski. In the summer, I like to play tennis, roller blade, travel, and read; I’m trying to learn to play golf, but that has been a painstaking process!

It is a privilege, and an enormous amount of fun, to work and live at Milton Academy. I consider myself lucky.

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