Who am I?
I’m Kimberly, your Navigator.
Why Navigator and not counselor, life coach, college admissions professional, educational consultant, or some other title?
Because those are all titles that other people hold.
While important jobs, none of them encompasses the work that I do or the reasons I do it.
Who I am:
a former Director of Undergraduate & Graduate Admission who realized that I never wanted to be a University Vice President because then all of my work days would be spent in meetings
a former adolescent social worker who focused on teens with psychiatric illnesses and issues with substance abuse
an entrepreneur who took a chance in 2011 and started a business that allows me to do the work I love
someone with decades (gulp!) of college admission experience
a career counselor with a professional network of thousands who make themselves available to my clients for informational interviews
a former gifted kid and chronic underachiever who wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until I was almost 30 years old
a first generation college graduate
someone who always thought I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up but changed my mind in my SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE
someone who earned undergraduate degrees in anthropology and creative writing, went to graduate school for social work and much later earned a MBA while working full-time
a certified Myers-Briggs® specialist
a hypnotherapist
the mother of a high school student
an animal rescue volunteer and “mom” to 4 cats
a writer with a modern thriller in development
a firstborn, Capricorn, ENFJ - Protagonist, and relentless optimist
an adult who hates green vegetables and loves Raspberry Zingers
Things I believe:
If we’re alive, it’s not too late.
There are unlimited ways to achieve the lives we seek.
Where we begin can look wildly different from where we go.
Everyone deserves to have lives they love.
Being good at school does not equal being good at life.
Depression and anxiety are liars.
Learning disabilities are something you have, not who you are.
Not everyone should go to college.
If you want to go to college, there’s a school and a program for you (a bunch of them, actually).
You don’t need to know what’s next in order to be ready for it.
Equity beats equality, every time.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans Lives Matter.
LGBTQIA individuals must be celebrated, not just accepted.