I am a retired occupational therapist who recently worked in the special education department of a mid-sized public school system in the western United States at the primary student level. My experience includes 20 years of school-based practice serving students from pre-school to high school in small and medium-sized suburban school districts in addition to a large urban district in the states of Washington, New Mexico and Tennessee. I received my master’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.