Her creativity is reflected in the way she teaches her classes, which is based on explanations with drawings on the blackboard, so that the children can write or draw the information they have learned and work as a team when they go to the field to conduct experiments. She also studied Advertising Design at the Universidad Hispanoamérica, and this tool has helped her because she has designed mini-stories for children. She loves to sow seeds, watch them grow and wait patiently to contemplate their flowers or fruits. She feels very grateful to be a guide for the students, she has the conviction that each mind and heart of the students is cultivated from love, understanding, without imposition, and letting them be who they really are, adapting a healthy environment of respect and harmony. She is also the vocalist of the band Get in the Microbus, where her compositions are inspired by Mother Nature, inspired by howler congos, rivers, daily life on the coasts, with its waves and surreal sunsets that make our stay on earth a paradise for those who know how to appreciate. 

During her 20+ years of teaching, coordinating, and program development, she also obtained her Master’s Degree in Youth Development and an endorsement in teaching English as a second language, wrote and managed educational grants, and led several summer programs – one being a children’s theatre program in Monteverde. Katie has a passion for learning and growing, which is why she loves working with children and youth – every day is a new adventure where she learns as much as her students. She loves to spend her free time with her family and to just be in nature – whether it’s hiking, going to the beach or river, swimming, running, surfing or relaxing.

As an educator, she has been in charge of the Costarican delegacy in several tours to the United States. During the time that she was coordinating Emco a relationship was established with North Park University and the Human Values Collective at Chicago, which allowed the production of the International Symposium of Músico-social Organizations of Iberoamérica, with the participation of Colombia, El Salvador, México, Guatemala, Suiza, España, Estados Unidos y Costa Rica. She majored in English teaching at Universidad de Costa Rica. She is married, and the mother of two bright girls one of which April who will join us in Prepa cycle. She joins us with the hope that each student can feel welcome in the Music classroom, accepting their human nature of making mistakes and learning from them, since I identify myself with the words of Alejandro Jorodowsky: “For art to be art, it has to cure”.