Ms. Simpson was born in Glendale, California where she grew up attending a low-income, low-achieving high school with a highly diverse population.  Though she always saw her poverty as a barrier growing up, when she went away to college at Purdue University in 2010 she experienced a whole new perspective on life: that of the predominantly white, middle class.  Where the environment of her upbringing saw college as a luxury, her college peers, for the most part, saw college as a necessity and expectation.  It was these, among other, stark differences that led Ms. Simpson to want to become an educator at the middle and high school level. Not only did she want to give back to the community that she came from, but she wanted to empower more students from at-risk backgrounds to feel like college, or other career pursuits, were accessible to them.

Ms. Simpson graduated in May of 2017 from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky after getting her Masters of the Arts in Teaching for English Middle and Secondary Education.  Before moving into the Jefferson County Public School system in 2016, she got her start in teaching first at the Purdue Writing Lab (home of the famous, or perhaps infamous, Purdue OWL), teaching dance classes to children, working with a dance/theatre/circus production company, and teaching English at Mercy Academy (2015-2016).  Though her first three years in education were with English Language Arts classes, she is excited to now have the opportunity (and, hopefully, many years-worth to come) teaching her favorite thing in the world: DANCE!  She has several passions in life, among which are reading, writing, the arts (especially dance, theatre, and other performing arts), travel, roller coasters, cats, naps, and well-constructed movies and TV shows.  Her motto in life is:
Be Brave!  Be Bold!  Take Chances!
We always regret the things we didn't do more than the things we did.