This is my 27 th year of teaching English language arts to the junior high students of Cathedral Chapel School. I also serve as the moderator for the Student Ambassadors, and I co-coach the speech team as well as our academic decathlon team. I am one of seven siblings from a very diverse family. My Irish Catholic parents greatly valued Catholic education, sports, and humor, as do I. I was able to attend Catholic elementary at Our Lady of Lourdes in Northridge, Alemany High, and received my masters’ degree in secondary education from Loyola Marymount University. This is a second career for me. I earned my bachelor’s degree in history from CSUN and a juris doctor from San Fernando Valley College of Law. I am very proud to be a part of Chapel, a school I believe to be “The Diamond of the Archdiocese.” God bless CCS!