This is my home team! I’m a mom of three, not including the dog, and we’re constantly navigating how educational environments impact our day-to-day. Well before I had this crew though, I was “Ms. Larkin”; I started teaching as a third grade self-contained special education teacher in East Harlem via NYC Teaching Fellows. Fast forward through the next decade—teaching in a range of settings, moving into the growing charter world, becoming a special education leader and assistant principal at Uncommon Schools—and all of a sudden I was building innovative programs for preparing new special education teachers, including brand new NYC Teaching Fellows.

In my ten years at the Relay Graduate School of Education, I worked with educators all across the country, across all content areas PK-12 and all leadership levels, and got deep into the weeds of educator preparation, program design, talent pipelines and organizational leadership. In 2020, I stepped away from my leadership role at RGSE to pursue independent consulting and haven’t looked back. In my time as a consultant, I’ve worked with brand new charter start-ups, presented in front of state boards of education, led coalitions to shape change, helped leaders figure out creative staffing models, uncovered—and addressed!—huge budget issues and more. Along the way I’ve discovered that I genuinely love problem-solving and wayfinding. I like contributing to meaningful solutions and helping leaders feel they have someone in their corner.