Staff Spotlight: Conversation with Kate Adams

 

Name (pronouns): Kate Adams (she, her, hers)

Hometown: Dennis, MA

Year at Geisel: 4

Career interest: Mental Health, Wellbeing, Coaching, Live Performance, Music, Dance, Yoga, Movement Therapy

The best thing about Geisel is: the small, tight-knit community

Favorite spot in the Upper Valley: Putnam’s Vineyard for an indoor spot, the white river branch near South Royalton for an outdoor spot

Favorite activity in the Upper Valley: Searching for good finds at Listen

Book/poem Recommendation: Braiding Sweetgrass & anything by Mary Oliver

Favorite piece of music/song: To many to list but right now I’m into the band Palace

Favorite quote: “Precision is suffocating”. Also, anything uttered by Aldo Leopold or Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

Most treasured travel: My 36 trips around the sun

Guilty pleasure: Reality TV- Real Housewives, anything on Bravo really

Unknown fact about you: I’m chainsaw certified, live in the woods for 8 months and can move big rocks with the correct mechanical advantage

 

Bio:

Kate grew up in Dennis, MA a small beach town on Cape Cod. She earned her BA at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA (Berkshires) and pursued a career in performing arts and arts administration. She is also a registered yoga teacher, level III Reiki practitioner, Barre instructor, and will soon be a certified Health and Wellness Coach.

After a few years in Manhattan and a year in Maine, she moved to New Hampshire to work at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College working on student engagement & marketing. She joined Geisel in February 2020 and is currently the Wellness Program Coordinator for the Office of Student Life.

When she’s not in the office Kate enjoys traveling, hiking (ask her about the NH 48), tending to her garden, and watching the Great British Baking Show. She is a dog Mom of a mini–Australian Shepard named Lola who is currently living with her grandparents on the cape.