About Me
I was born to and reared by two teachers. With their whole hearts, my parents love Jesus and learning, and showed me how to do the same. During my junior year at The College of William and Mary, I sensed God calling me to vocational ministry. After college, I studied at Duke Divinity School. Eight days after graduating from Duke, my home church ordained me to Gospel ministry.
If someone had told me then where the next few years would take me, I wouldn’t have believed them: chaplaincy at Duke Medical Center; youth ministry in northwestern Virginia; back to Duke for more studies; and then…AND THEN…doctoral studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. In so many ways, none of it was what I expected--except that the lifelong red threads of Jesus and learning continued to be woven through each and every stop in my journey.
Within months of arriving in Princeton, I not only discovered my passion for disability theology and ministry, I met the love of my life. Will and I married between my second and third comprehensive exams, and had our first baby between the writing of the second and third chapters of my dissertation. Our second baby was born just a few months after I defended my dissertation. In 2014, God called us to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where my husband began his tenure as pastor of a Presbyterian church. I stayed at home with our little ones and then worked on staff at our church—that is, until God called me to continue my ministry in a classroom. I currently teach AP English at our local high school. Jesus and learning. I will never cease to marvel at the ways God continues to work all things together for good.
