Hailing from the Great Lake State, Brooke has lived in Marion for 5 years. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University studying educational psychology with an interest in learning more about students of color’s experiences of belonging in math classrooms. She has worked as a special education teacher here in Marion and also as a Resident Director at Indiana Wesleyan. One of her greatest achievements was hiking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. She credits her husband Joel with increasing her curiosity for all things “outdoorsy” and wants to give a shout out to her cat Speckle just because she deserves it.
“Just be happy!” is a phrase I’ve said to myself on multiple occasions as I mentally work to fight back feelings of discontentment. Next, I take a minute to think through the millions of ways life could be so much worse, and that familiar sense of guilt begins to rise. Finally, I resolve to be […]