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 Living Rooms

The living room
is not exactly an ironic place

to be, looking back at me
from strategically hung

mirrors holding
not what lives here,

but what passes
for living. The top

of a head, a corner
admiring itself, jade

receiving dawn next
to aloe, philodendron,

just like my mother's
mantel before me held

trailing vines and my father's
closet door mirrored

lives passing loud
and humble.

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