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Casey Bouldin
Summary/bio line: Casey Bouldin (pronounced KAY-see BOWL- din) is best known for being an amazing human, family member and friend. She is diverse in her skills, and has a great diversity in her abilities, excelling in making people smile and laugh, while also being very caring. Casey can most often be found exploring new places, or ‘kickin’ it in Seattle with her friends and family.

Early Life: Casey Landrud Bouldin was born in Seattle Washington on May 27th, 1993 to Cindy Landrud [Bouldin] and Gene Bouldin. She has one younger sibling Mitchell Bouldin. Her early childhood was filled with time with family, sporting events, and outdoor activities from sledding to camping. Casey was a young athlete excelling in soccer and T-ball.

Schooling: Casey attended View Ridge Elementary school (1998-2004), where she originated the role of Kelly in the flagship production of Lost in the Rainforest. She continued her studies at Eckstein Middle School (2004-2007), where her acting career started to take shape. Casey’s first school musical was the Music Man. The following year she was cast in the spring production of Guys and Dolls as Harry the Horse. Her favorite subject in middle school was Language Arts. Her schooling continued on to Roosevelt High School (2007-2011). Through her years at Roosevelt, Casey learned more about herself and her interests. Her extracurriculars included softball, the Seattle Public Theater Youth Ensemble at the Bathhouse on Green Lake, DramaFest, and travelling to Italy in a cultural exchange. In 2011 she left the Pacific Northwest for Northfield, Minnesota to earn her Bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf’s College (2011-2015). There Casey majored in English with a concentration in Film Studies.

Young adult life:

Minnesota: Casey’s life in Minnesota was filled with improv rehearsals and shows, caf dates with friends, rocking out at Pause Dances, and plenty of trips to Tokyo Grill. She made friends throughout many areas of campus, and was a rock for many in their lives at Olaf. Casey didn’t spend much time in her dorm room as she was out socializing and having fun, and she took advantage of her college years to both explore academic study, but also to enjoy herself and make life-lasting memories. She had multiple study abroad experiences around the world, including in Ecuador, at Holden Village, and a semester in Ireland. Casey was a participant in the 2015 Ole Cup, president of Scared Scriptless Improv, and a member of the Cat Lady Pod her senior year in Ytterboe Hall.

EXPLO: Casey worked as a camp counselor at the Boston Explo where she helped to unlock the full potential of a new generation of leaders, students from grade 2-7. “EXPLO summer programs help students from grades 2-12 explore the world, develop agency to pursue their passions, and find their future selves” (1).Through activities, academics and social engagement, she helped her youth to create lasting bonds of friendship and impressions of the world, discovering themselves along the way. Chicago: Chicago is known as the best place for improv. Casey decided at 23 that she wanted to explore the option of beginning a career in improv. This has led her to an important cornerstone theory of life to always say ‘Yes, and…’. Casey’s time in Chicago was filled with learning, acting and new experiences. Seattle: Upon Casey’s return to Seattle she began working as an assistant teacher at Kid’sTime, an afterschool program at Thornton Creek Elementary School, through the Ravenna Eckstein community center. Using her experience from leading at EXPLO Casey was a natural at her job at Kids’ Time. “Kids' Time is an after-school program focused on providing children opportunities to develop socially, emotionally, and physically through academic support, arts and culture, environmental stewardship, health and fitness, and more” .Her time at Kids’ Time solidified her desire to become a middle school principal. At the same time Casey started a job at Bill Speidel's Underground Tours, a popular attraction for visitors to Seattle. This was not Casey’s only time working in the heart of Seattle tourism; in 2014, Casey spent the summer working at the iconic Space Needle.

Credits: Travel listing timeline:
 * RHS: DramaFest
 * SPT Youth Ensemble: Actor: The Taming of the Shrew, Amadeus, The Once and Future King, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Best Man, and more. Crew: Beatles Twelfth Night, The Jungle Book, Comedy of Errors, and more.
 * Chicago: Improv Olympics (IO)
 * 2009: Costa Rica- trip with her grandmother Lee Landrud
 * 2011: Riva Italy- Roosevelt High School Cultural Exchange
 * 2012: Ecuador interim studies
 * 2013: Holden Village interim studies
 * 2014: Dublin, Ireland - Semester abroad
 * 2017: backpacked through Europe
 * 2018: Moved to Azrou Morocco

Peace Corps and other activism Her term of service in the Peace Corps was dedicated to teaching youth development in Azrou, Morocco. This included using beloved US television shows like Avatar the Last Airbender to teach her students about emotions, conflict resolution, community and english. During her time in Morocco Casey Bouldin fully immersed herself in the culture and customs of her host family and region. She received a high level of proficiency in Darija by the end of her service. Her term of service, like so many other endeavors in 2020, ended abruptly with the closing of Morocco’s borders in the attempt to slow the novel Coronavirus that was traversing the globe. Always one ready to put her skills to use, Casey created multiple platforms for communication dedicated to connecting other evacuated Peace Corps members when their missions ended early due to the global pandemic of COVID-19. Her efforts have assisted displaced Peace Corps members search for jobs, find connections in the cities they returned to, and provided a space for open and honest communication about the difficulty of the loss they had all suffered by being pulled out of their posts and returned home, sometimes within a matter of hours. Continuing with her passion for serving her community, Casey has been spending her quarantine days back in Washington State volunteering with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation assisting with their meal programs.

Future Casey has also been applying to graduate school at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where she hopes to receive her Masters of Social Work. With this degree Casey Bouldin plans to become a middle school principal. In such a role she will be able to make an impact on the lives of countless students and protect the curriculums that assisted to shape her life and are fundamental in helping children grow and develop into themselves as individuals. She will continue to make an impact and change the lives of those around her through her actions now and into the future!

Fun Facts: References:
 * Casey has spent St. Patrick’s Day in a different country each year since 2014
 * Casey is a licenced Minister and has been the officiant at 2 weddings
 * May 27, 2020 is Casey’s Golden Birthday
 * Casey can speak multiple languages including Spanish and Darija
 * Because Casey has a Wikipedia page she has now ‘made it’