Occupation: I’m a marketing director for Valassis out of Windsor. I support the business development team there.

Family: I have an 11-year-old daughter, Kelsea, and a 12-year-old “bonus” daughter, Montana. My husband Tom and I just got married this past summer.

Pets: We have 17 pets, including the fish and lizard tanks. We have four rabbits, Magic, SS, Comet, and RolyPolyOly. We have two cats, Spencer and Aurora, and a sugar glider, which is a marsupial, named Raven. I got Raven from a Rolling Rock ad shoot at work.

How long have you lived in Newtown? I have lived here for ten years.

What do you like to do in your free time? I’m a Girl Scout leader for Troop 50706. I have 20 amazing girls with great parents. That’s the biggest part of my free time. I run family fun night at Reed Intermediate School and I just took on being membership chairperson for the United Methodist Church. I love to do crafts and I knit. My free time is mostly about the kids, though.

Do you have a favorite movie or book? My all-time favorite movie is The Princess Bride. I absolutely love it. My favorite book is The Celestine Prophecy.

Do you have a favorite travel destination? I love to travel. Switzerland is my favorite country, but I love to go to the Caribbean. I have a time-share in Aruba so I’ve traded it to stay in places all over the Caribbean. Our honeymoon was a cruise to the Bahamas.

Do you have a hero or heroine? Any mother who works out of the home. Anybody who can balance his or her life with grace is a hero figure to me.

What is the best thing about Newtown? The generosity of this town really blows me away. It never ceases to amaze me when we run some sort of charity drive, whether it is collecting dog food or for Heifer International. People really get behind a cause. There’s a lot of passion for doing the right thing in this town.

Do you have a personal philosophy? I talk to my daughter and to my Scouts a lot about the Golden Rule, especially as they get into their teen years. I expect them to be kind if they want others to be kind to them.

Do you have a guilty pleasure? Chocolate! The darker the better! We did a Mom and Daughter Got Chocolate night for all of the Girl Scout troops of Reed Intermediate recently. We made chocolate bath salts and chocolate lip-gloss; Jack from Newtown Chocolatier gave us a fact sheet about chocolate and six pounds of different kinds of chocolate to sample; and we had a hot chocolate bar. It was so much fun.