About Me

I was born and in Chicago and grew up on the northwest side of the city in a predominantly Polish and Hispanic neighborhood. For my grade school years, I went to a small Catholic school, St. Ladislaus, a block away from my home. After eighth grade, I moved to Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago, where I went to New Trier High School. During high school, I ran track and field and played some intramural basketball and volleyball. I also wrote a bit for the school newspaper. I then decided to spend the next four years of my life at Indiana University in Bloomington, where I received a degree in History and Spanish.

After graduating, I came back home to Wilmette where I wasn't quite sure what to do next. I had worked as an intern for a sociological study for a few weeks and over the summer worked at the summer camp I had spent my last few summers. After some soul searching and time wasting, I got a job working as a waiter and then lucked out with an internship at a public relations firm in the city. After realizing that the job was far from what I wanted to be doing with my life, I decided to enroll at DePaul University to become a certfied teacher. I had always loved working with kids at the summer camp and knew it'd be a great fit for me.

I'm in my first year at DePaul's School of Education and I'm hoping to teach Social Studies at the junior high and high school level.  This year at DePaul, I've worked with America Reads as a team leader and tutor, where groups of DePaul students go on work on reading and comprehension with a number of inner-city Catholic schools.  It's been an interesting experience to view these grade schools along with my observations at Walter Payton High School, Wilmette Junior High School, and Johnson College Prep to view and reflect on the range of educational experiences going on in our city.