By Sally Portman ’13, Contributor.

This year, Audra Jenkins will join the CCDS Upper School Science Department as a chemistry teacher.

Mrs. Jenkins moved to Cincinnati from Denver, Colorado and said she is excited to join the Upper School faculty. She will be teaching two chemistry classes during this year. After moving to Cincinnati because of her husband’s job, Mrs. Jenkins connected with CCDS through a Colorado friend and fellow teacher Kristy Garfoot, the daughter of former CCDS biology teacher, Dave Walsh.

Upper School Science Department Chair Tim Dunn said that Mrs. Jenkins “has taught at this type of school before, and we are very excited to have her.”

Mrs. Jenkins taught chemistry from 1997 through 2009, most recently at the Kent Denver School. She said she expects CCDS to be “similar, but smaller” than her old school. She took the last school year off, spending some of her time reading and running, but mostly enjoying time with her 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son, both of whom she hopes to enroll at CCDS at some point in the future.

While she said she missed the mountains of Colorado, where she loved to ski and hike, Mrs. Jenkins said that she is very excited to develop new hobbies in a new place. The Midwest is not entirely new to her, as Mrs. Jenkins earned her undergraduate from Michigan State University and her Master’s in education from the University of Michigan.

Mrs. Jenkins said she is “very excited to be working again, and so far it’s been great!”

Photo by Ilana Habib ‘11, Photography Editor