My career in education began with teaching high school mathematics in the mountains of Western North Carolina. During that time, I began working on a master's degree, which I ended up taking graduate courses in statistics for. I had never taken a course in statistics for my undergraduate course work despite being a mathematics major, yet I had been teaching statistics concepts for years to students. Taking those courses made me realize not only how little I understood statistics, but that I had been doing a terrible job of teaching those concepts to students for years. It was this realization that motivated me to pursue a PhD in Mathematics Education to investigate the question of how can we improve the statistical education of students in schools? Scholars Page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=smeqrnwAAAAJ&hl=en