Ms. Gray is new to Mead High School and teaches American history. She is originally from a small town in Wisconsin,  Scandinavia. Her family has lived there for a few generations.

Her family first moved there when the town was one of the only areas that used to primarily speak Norwegian, and her grandfather didn’t speak English until 1920 when he started school.

Before coming to Colorado, Ms. Gray traveled all over the country, where she found her love for Georgia and settled down for college there.

After graduating from University of Georgia, she taught in southern Atlanta, “It’s just definitely a different experience teaching, because it’s a different population who have different values and beliefs…” she said, “But overall, [it] hasn’t really been anything crazy.”

Ms. Gray is a teacher who cares not only for students’ education but also students’ mental health, “history comes second after someone’s mental health for me, like I want to make sure kids know that.”

“Engage with your material. Try and even if it’s like, not something you like, try to think about it in a way and how you can climb that mountain” She said.

Her favorite free time hobbies include interior design and collecting historic American girl dolls. These dolls are one of the things that originally got Ms. Gray into educating others about American history.

“Yeah, that’s kind of what I realized got me into American history, was my love for American Girl dolls”. She said, “most of American history is not about women, let alone girls. So kind of this fact that it’s showing this part of history is really cool.”.

Mead high school welcomes Ms. Gray and thanks her for taking the opportunity to educate students at a new high school.