Government, Economics

I grew up on the East Coast in Rhode Island and had the good fortune to attend an independent high school, Moses Brown School, in Providence. Dartmouth College was next – a wonderful combination of a top-notch education at a small college located in a spectacular region of Northern New England. I thrived at Dartmouth and after a gap year working on a boat in the Caribbean, went on to Harvard Law School. Law school was intellectually stimulating and gave me the opportunity to land a job in San Francisco, working with clients in the investment banking and high tech industries. After a short stint as a lawyer, I moved to high tech investment banking, where I worked for 17 years.

When I was in high school and college, I spent my summers working with children as a camp counselor, a job I found immensely rewarding, so when I left investment banking, I focused on teaching as the next step in my career. A TMS Board member mentioned to me that the school was looking for a part-time Social Studies teacher to teach the second semester and I was lucky enough to land the job. That was January 2003 and the experience has been everything I hoped for.

TMS is a unique and wonderful place. I teach Geography to freshmen and Government and Economics to seniors. I see first hand the transformation of our students from wide-eyed youngsters barely out of middle school to mature, intellectually interesting young adults ready to take on the world. It is immensely rewarding to be able to play a role in that transformation. I am stimulated on a daily basis by my students as well as my fellow faculty members, who are among the best in their fields.

Government/Economics core classes and Government/Economics elective classes