Lori attended UNC, Greeley and earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in Elementary Education and endorsement in English as a Second Language.  She has a Masters in Education from Grand Canyon University.  She has been teaching since the Fall of 1999.  She began her teaching career at Ellicott.  For the next 6 years, she taught elementary and middle school and coached high school basketball, volleyball, and middle school volleyball.  She then taught at a virtual academy, COVA, for the next 4 years and has been teaching at Springs Studio since 2011. She enjoys playing volleyball and coaching volleyball for Falcon High School and Altitude Volleyball Club.  She has three children who are very involved in sports and she enjoys supporting their activities.