Betsy Monaco, Advisor
Mrs. Monaco grew up in rural southern Illinois where her grandparents had a farm. She completed her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She served in Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan and can still mangle a few phrases in Russian. From there, she went on to be a producer for commercial fashion photographers in New York City. After six years of wrangling photographers & models, she returned to school to complete her Masters in Education at New York University. She has been living in California for a few years now and only misses snow on Christmas Day. She strongly believes that one can never have too many books or too many plants.