Kerrin Duffy grew up in Attleboro, MA where she studied Culinary Arts in high school and participated in a number of extracurricular activities from Theater and Dance to Soccer and Field Hockey. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts and Secondary Education at Framingham State University. After teaching Art, English, Life Skills and Yoga for nearly a decade at an alternative charter high school in Boulder, Colorado, she returned home to New England focused on working with diverse populations of students. She spent two years teaching as a Special Educator in Lawrence, MA before moving up 93 to Salem, NH. As an educator (and a human) she believes in the African proverb that explains raising a child takes an entire village of caring and compassionate role models, in and out of the classroom. Duffy cares deeply about her students as individuals; between protesting in the streets of Denver with the Black Lives Matter peaceful demonstrators (and even some former students) to participating in school groups such as the GSA, she has grown to appreciate and yearn for these socially conscious learning experiences viscerally and hopes to share these diverse worldviews in her class offerings at Arts Academy.