After training for a year with Seoul Improv I began coaching young improv students through Cal Shakes. One particularly awesome group of elementary school students decided to keep the program going on their own when their school shut it down, and I was able to work with that same group for nine years (and counting!). A heartwarming highlight was when one student told me that he credited improv (and other performing) with helping him manage his speech challenges. In his junior year of high school he fundraised to provide a month of free improv sessions to other speech students in his school district.

Improv has changed the way I think, and the way I interact during group decision-making and projects. I’m so grateful to have this artform flickering around in my heart!