Meet the Staff!
Meet Ms. U! This is Ms. U’s fourth year as the
Resource Coordinator for Youth Guidance at STEM. She has been managing youth programs
for the past 7 parks and recreation. She
graduated from Purdue University (Go Boilermakers!) with and Family Services. Ms. U grew up in Downers Grove where she loved playing soccer and spending as much time by and in a pool or lake as possible! She just learned how to knit with the children a couple years ago and her favorite thing to make is knit hats! Something you might not know about Ms. U is that she doesn’t know when her actual birthday is, it’s either March 20th or the 21st, so she celebrates both days!
We
are happy to welcome back Mr. Nall to the YG-STEM team with the after school program this fall! Mr. Nall is a cartoonist and teaching
artist from North Henderson, Illinois. He studied English and Theatre at
Monmouth College in Monmouth, IL (B.A. English, 2012). He has studied
Performance Styles, Renaissance Art, and Architecture in Florence, London, and
Chicago. Mr. Nall is a co-organizer for the Chicago Zine Fest. His
illustrations and comics have been published in New City, the Chicago Reader,
and Chicago Literati.Mr. Nall will be instructing our Comic book, Drama, Scratch, and Gym Games classes this fall!
We are happy to
welcome back Ms.
Dennis to the YG-STEM team again with the after school program
this fall! Ms. Dennis is the Artistic Director of Chicago's New
Millennium Theatre Company and former Assistant Creative Director of The
Flaming Dames. She recently served as an after school instructor at Delano
Elementary School teaching poetry, music, drama, and the mathematics of music,
among other things. Her choreography projects include Crazy For Swayze: A
Swayzical, The Living Canvas Nocturne and Demons, and Oklahoma! (Snyder
Junior High).
She will be teaching Musical
Theater, Make a Move, Drama (2-8 Grade), and Dance classes this fall!
