Katrina Vandiver is a native New Yorker born in White Plains, New York, and raised in Co-op City. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and health education from Lehman College and a master’s degree in Multicultural Education from The College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York. She has been an educator for more than thirty years. In the Duval County school district in Jacksonville Florida, she was an elementary school teacher and a professor of Education at Jones College. While in Florida she was also a Men’s Transition Counselor for men on parole in Baker County, Florida, and a general education instructor for the Unlimited Path Program in a men’s prison. She began teaching for the New York City Department of Education in 1994 and is currently a Health and Physical Education Teacher at Thurgood Marshall Academy for Social Change in Harlem, New York City. She is very passionate about giving back and pouring into the lives of youth. She believes in perseverance in the face of adversity and is proud to admit to being a Breast Cancer survivor of 23 years this year!

Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”