Meet the Intern: Laura Stickle
Posted Thursday October 01 2015 at 2:31 pm.
Used tags: education, internship, vsa
Hello! My name is Laura, and I am thrilled to be interning with VSA this year. I grew up dancing and singing in Indiana and studied Vocal Performance at Indiana University. After graduation, I spent a year in Boston as an AmeriCorps volunteer with ReadBoston’s Reading Trail program and then moved abroad to Seoul to teach Kindergarten and study Korean. Most recently, I worked as an instructional coach for a children’s literacy organization in Chicago and am currently studying Arts in Education at Harvard.
What are your favorite pastimes?
"Dancing, singing, spending time with my niece and nephew (writing songs and plays, having dance parties, reading and making up stories before bed), sitting in kitchens talking with family and friends, playing euchre, drinking chai tea lattes, baking treats, and reenacting movie scenes."
If you could be a cartoon character, who would you be?
"Alice in Wonderland - She had such wonderful adventures and had the opportunity to meet so many delightfully bizarre characters."
You are trapped on an island. What three items do you want to have with you?
"Chai tea latte, a translator for speaking with marine life, and vanilla mint Eos."
Do you have any uncommon talents or quirks?
"My friends would tell you my list of quirks is endless, but for the sake of brevity, I will just focus on one: I am pretty enthusiastic about dancing in public and love to encourage others to join me. For example, in middle school, my friend did a hidden camera show for our school news channel and asked me to randomly dance in front of the local movie theater to capture people's reactions. Most recently, I reenacted the Mambo scene from Dirty Dancing."
What brings you to VSA?
"I am at VSA, because I want to empower others through the arts."
What are you doing during your internship?
"I will be working with teachers, administrators, teaching artists, and VSA staff on programming and development of the Embodying Literacy and COOL Schools programs. I look forward to learning more about best practices in inclusive education and arts in education from the talented members of the VSA community!"
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