The NBNC Team

Mia has a fondness for the natural world that stems from her upbringing in New England and spending time climbing trees, catching daddy long legs, fishing in streams and ponds, and on her grandparents’ farm. In a past life Mia was a licensed massage therapist, practicing in New Hampshire. When she moved to Vermont she started substituting at a community-based preschool, which ignited a newfound passion in her life to earn her degree and licensure in Early Education. Mia has always been proud of her Abenaki heritage, though she is still working on owning it. She has participated in an Abenaki language community in an effort to understand the culture and enjoys sharing these understandings with the children that she works with. If she’s not teaching you can find her wandering through the woods, gardening (or at least sitting in a very weedy patch of what used to be a garden), experimenting in the kitchen, working on her asana practice, giving belly rubs to her only child, her dog Mera, or building her house with her partner Jon.