From 2006-2020, Jamie worked as a teaching artist in many settings. Her favorite gig was teaching poetry in Portland Public Schools through Literary Arts and Arts for Learning. Notable residences include The Warm Springs Museum, Crook County High School, Bend High Teen Parent Program, Deer Ridge Correctional Institute, Shepherd's House habilitation center and New Leaf Academy therapeutic boarding school for girls. The most unusual place she ever taught was Whitehorse Yukon, followed by five weeks at a one-room school house in Paulina, Oregon.
Now, Jamie spends her time teaching and singing to her own children and blogging personal essays. Her favorite topics include medical research and sharing her experiences teaching.
(Sometimes, she still writes in her native language, poetry.)
For now.
