Bio
Founder of SEL Chicago, Kristin combines a career of teaching and serving with her passion for creating mutually respectful environments with children in families, children, classrooms and schools.
In her collaboration with teachers, administrations and families, this Sandy Hook, CT native's goal is to help facilitate opportunities for adults and students to become compassionate leaders, with the hope that doing so will help build more peaceful community in Chicago and the world. She is the author of Our Brain Book, a rhyming and picture book that helps teach the anatomy and physiology of emotional regulation to children and the adults who care for them.
Kristin is a committed educator with over a decade of experience in vocational, adult education, using these democratic tools of connection serving Chicago’s Cortiva Institute as both Education Director (2007-2008) and Adjunct Faculty Member (2006-2017.) She employed the Positive Discipline Approach to lead her classroom of up to 54 students, with the majority of her students aged 18-25 recent Chicago Public School graduates.
Her training as a massage therapist and yoga teacher provides a foundation and love for anatomy and science of human development. Kristin served on the Positive Discipline Association Board of Directors both as a Director and Consultant from 2016-18.
Kristin received her undergraduate training at Mount Holyoke College and Williams College. A life long learner, she is pursuing her Masters of Science in Psychology at Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech) with expected matericulation in 2019.
