Meet our new Youth & Young Adult Coordinator
Rachel has a range of experience teaching and organizing youth and adult volunteers, and has a deep commitment to the values that Quakers hold dear. She has been a high school science teacher for the past eight years. With a degree and background in environmental science, she brings a strong sense of earth stewardship to her work with young people. She has been a Girl Scout leader, and also has extensive experience supervising literacy programs for a library system. Her philosophy of teaching is to be a “guide on the side” rather than “a sage on the stage,” as she put it.
She has been active with the Young Friends Group (First Day School) activities and projects at Orlando Monthly Meeting, where she has been an attender since 2018. She is the mother of three: a daughter Esme, now in high school; two sons, James, now 18, and Will, now 20. She often relies on them to help her better understand their peers.
Meetings, Worship Groups, young adults, and parents are all welcome to contact Rachel at yyacoordinator@seymquakers.org
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