 What motivates me to do what I do is really a love of people. The greatest attribute that Kathy brings to Snohomish High School is her willingness to serve. When you look at a community like the city of Snohomish, it doesn't look very diverse from the outside, but when you look at our schools, you look at our families, you look at our main street, you realize that there is absolutely diversity. We're as a community trying to find our identity and how we're going to maintain our traditional values as a farm community, and at the same time modernize our thinking so all kids feel welcome. Many times individuals of color have been left out as if somehow their voices didn't matter. I needed to take greater steps to ensure that my students felt safe, loved and accepted, and that they had an ally here on this campus. She's been here for four decades raising her kids, having a family and teaching, and she's always known that equity was important. Kathy is that warm smile that hugged that invitation and leading in conversations around equity, around race, around justice. She's bringing other people up to be their best self and to try new things and grow. Kathy came up with an idea called grow your own, because we have a problem of recruiting diverse educators to our school district. Not only does it do something for the kids of color to know that, okay, I can be successful and I can go into the teaching profession, but also for kids in the majority to recognize that there are a plethora of experiences outside of just the mainstream of what they may have seen before, and the capabilities of those teachers that they are looking to are a wealth of information and diversity of thought that helps them to learn more about the world and become a great citizen of the world. She is just a remarkable voice for those students who need a voice and is a remarkable ambassador for her community. Today you're just doing an average, so you'll just put that in a separate column. Kathy teaches a lot of different classes. She teaches business classes. She teaches social studies classes. In Civics, our students last year were able to interview candidates based on questions that they themselves had devised. She is constantly looking for ways to help students find real-life applications. When I found that I could help people, not just kids, but people become who they're supposed to be and watch those aha moments show up, it just feeds my soul to be able to do that and to watch kids just really step into who they are destined to become.