My object in living is to unite/My avocation and my vocation/As my two eyes make one in sight. -- Robert Frost

What if the mightiest word is love? -- Elizabeth Alexander

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"Kathy connects with everyone and has the ability to be both involved in daily, practical matters as well as more long term strategic thinking." -- Bjorn Akselsen, design colleague

Career development professional strongly committed to supporting master's and PhD-level emerging leaders in a wide range of environment and business/environment related fields. Twelve years of progressively responsible experience in higher education, focused on career development and student services at Ivy League university.

Creative, big-picture thinker with proven follow-through and unique ability to engage and lead employers, colleagues, students and alumni to strategically improve student resources.

Empathic adviser dedicated to student success with breadth of knowledge of green, sustainability and environment-related careers.

Community leader as secretary of the board of the New Haven YMCA Youth Center--a unique youth-only Y that provides recreational and personal development programs to at-risk youth in New Haven.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

The Work of Decision-Making

It Had to Be You

Faults were passed around
our home of nine like heaping
plates provided

mouths never knowing
want. With all of your faults
is how the song my father

engraved on my mother's
engagement ring goes, I love
you still,
reminding a marriage

with sultry confirmation
of decisions made by teens
in a time of war,

each one planted, by parents
who remembered what is was like
to go hungry, on American soil.

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