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​I was born and raised in Sweden, so my story is like that of many Americans: I am an immigrant working hard to live my American dream. My hometown is a university city just outside of Stockholm, Sweden, where my dad taught law school and my mom was a teacher.  One advantage of being an immigrant is I have firsthand experience of both Swedish and American education systems and can recognize flaws and successes in each. ​

As a child, I struggled at school in Sweden; I did not begin to enjoy learning until my grandmother, a retired teacher, began helping me with spelling, English, and German.  Her dedication during my early years provided the foundation I needed to graduate high school and attend one of Sweden's top universities.  I earned a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. ​

I worked for several years as an R&D Engineer/Project Manager, improving process development for several scientific projects. Then I met my husband and we decided to move to the US, arriving in Ohio with just two suitcases.  Within a year, we found jobs in San Diego and purchased our first home within the Poway Unified School District in 2001. Our family grew as we adopted our boys in 2004 and 2006, and our daughter in 2011.  They've attended several schools in PUSD as we moved, including Canyon View, Monterey Ridge, Oak Valley, D39, Del Norte, and currently Poway High School and Tierra Bonita Elementary School.

​I became deeply involved in advocacy in 2014, when I realized that my second son could not read or write in elementary school despite receiving a lot of support from special education for years. I began researching and realized he had dyslexia. Through further research I found there are very effective ways to teach dyslexic children to read, but the school system was unaware of these. So, I decided to start advocating for successful evidence-based reading programs to be introduced at PUSD.  I introduced them at IEP meetings and at the PUSD school board meetings. I met separately with school board trustees and the superintendent, and I hosted a local dyslexia support group in my home. I decided to become active in PTA because it is the largest and most effective advocacy group for children in the US.  This involvement has included many positions at all levels of the PTA within our district, and I am the recent past PTA President at Palomar Council which oversees all PTAs in PUSD.  Our advocacy has paid off - PUSD administrators listened, and many special education teachers have now been trained in evidence-based interventions and a program named Barton Reading & Spelling was purchased. These changes have helped many children learn to read and it has also saved PUSD money on cost for litigation. If I am elected to the PUSD Board of Education, I will bring this level of tireless advocacy to the table - for all students in our district.
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