Christa has been an educator in Alaska for 40 years. Her experience as a teacher ranges from elementary school to graduate level university courses. After retiring from teaching, she served as a statewide mentor to new teachers in Southeast Alaska, the interior of Alaska and on the islands of the Bering Sea. She is an ARCTIC teacher who fostered technology integration in districts across the state. She is a recipient of an Administrative Fulbright Fellowship, working in the Czech Republic on an exchange program that, in turn, brought a Czech scholar to Alaska in the second stage of the fellowship. She was the founding teacher in the Kanayama Exchange program in Japan. She was invited by the U.S. Department of State to facilitate online conversations on social justice in Azerbaijan. She represented the United States in one of the initial cultural exchange programs with China. She is an Annenburg Fellow obtaining a Master's Degree in Literature from Middlebury College, Vermont, and Lincoln College, Oxford University in England. She holds a Master's degree in Technology from University of Alaska Southeast and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a Masters Degree in Music from Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. She is an ARCTIC educator and consultant.
She is married to the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Ketchikan and is the mother of four adult sons. Come visit us in the rainforest. Sample our smoked salmon. Sail our boat!
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