User:Tanbou

In order to instill trust in any Wikipedia edits I make, I would like to share my various areas of expertise, experience, or background. • I am a middle-aged American woman whose four grandparents all left Russia at the time of the Russian revolution. • Russian was my first language, and I continue to be fluent in Russian. • I am an Orthodox Christian. • I have a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brown University. • I am a multi-faith, lay hospital chaplain, working in a large Level One trauma hospital in a state capital in New England. I received my training in Clinical Pastoral Education and was commissioned by my church. • Before training for, being commissioned, and becoming a chaplain, I spent many years as an educator (with a Masters degree in education from Bank Street College). First I was a teacher of pre-school aged intellectually disabled children, then a classroom teacher of 'normal' children at various grades levels at the elementary school level, and then Division Head for Grades 1-5 in a school encompassing Pre-K through Grade 9. • I am an adoptive parent of a 24 year old, whom I adopted from Russia when she was 5 years old.