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

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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 Keeping Small Children Off Rooftops

30 Girard

My mother was 28 and afraid
of heights when my father left

leaning on the house the ladder
Bobby and Richy climbed

to view the boats floating
on the Great South Bay.

This was just the beginning
of children leading one

or another to a greater vantage
from the two-story colonial

by the swamp and woods
designated forever wild,

of deciding which one
would be caught if two fell,

of lollipops proffered like bait
luring small children

with wide eyes and sweet tooths
back to terra firma.

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