Kelsey is our Lead Early Childhood Educator and Program Director, as well as a Trustee for the PEA. She joined our Riverwood community in 2016. Her niece is now a Riverwood graduate while both daughters currently attend Riverwood. Kelsey brings much passion for Waldorf education and a can-do attitude to Riverwood while understanding the important role she holds with the children. She relishes time outdoors with her family, enjoys handwork projects, gardening, and loves to read.

Home as the Model - Life is the Curriculum, Observing Young Children, Discipline with Loving Awareness, and most recently Learning in Nature with LifeWays North America, Raising Anti-Racist White Children with the Center for the Study of White American Culture, as well as Rejuvenation for Early Childhood Teachers with Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training. In the fall of 2018, she attended a Therapeutic Puppetry Workshop with Juniper Tree Puppetry that was held in Spokane. Kelsey attended the two-year Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher Training program through Sound Circle Center, a WECAN-recognized certified training institute. She graduated with her Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher certificate July of 2019. She is also a WaNPA (Washington Nature Preschool Association) member.