Haley comes to Telluride Mountain School from the tidewater region of Virginia, where she taught tenth and twelfth-grade Integrated Science at a boarding school on the Rappahannock River. There, she also helped lead a variety of local and global education trips that connected to the courses she taught - her favorite places to experience with students included Tangier, VA (a small island community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay), her family’s beef cattle farm, and different communities in Uttarakhand, India near the headwaters of the Ganges River. In addition to teaching and leading trips, Haley also worked in admissions, coached swimming, lived as a dorm parent, and helped run a working oyster farm. She is passionate about education that is interdisciplinary, connected, and rooted in a sense of place.

Haley went to boarding school in Delaware, studied biochemistry at Sewanee, the University of the South, and earned her Masters of Education from Vanderbilt. Outside school, Haley likes to run, read, needlepoint, swim, play tennis, see new places and meet new people. Growing up, she spent many summers and winters in Crested Butte, CO - which has always been one of her favorite places - and thus she is excited to get to know Telluride and the San Juan Mountains!