I was born 1957 in Royal Oak, Michigan, and graduated in 1979 from Central Michigan University with a BS in Education K-8 regular ed and K-12 special education. After one year teaching in Michigan, I ventured North to Alaska where I landed my first teaching position in a rural village in Southwest Alaska. Here I met my husband, Kim, and together we taught in different villages in rural Alaska and raised three children. In 1998, we moved to a community closer to Anchorage where I earned a Masters in Education with an emphasis in Preschool Special Education. I taught in preschool special education classrooms from 1998 to 2014. My story of CMT is long and layered but the short version is that I was diagnosed in 2012 through nerve conductive tests and a muscle biopsy. I am looking forward to supporting others with CMT!