Kathleen is teaching Intro to Lead Sheets for Piano, Intro to Pipe Organ and Handbells, accompanying Spirituals Choir.

Kathleen is originally from Indiana, where she received a B. A. in Music, Piano Pedagogy from Goshen College, Indiana. Currently, she is the Director of Music and Organist at First United Church, Waterloo, and teaches piano at Laurier Academy of Music and Arts (formerly Beckett School of Music), Waterloo, and at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, Kitchener.

She has had a wide and varied music career including teaching piano, organ, theory and voice privately; Director of Music at several churches in Waterloo, Goderich and Port Elgin; director of several community choirs such as the MacKay Choristers of Goderich, Goderich Area Youth Chorus, and the Saugeen Children's Choir; director of several handbell choirs and guest mass conductor at the Ontario Guild of English Handbell Ringers convention in 2001; teacher at Institut Biblique Lumière in Les Cayes, Haiti (MCC 1986-89).

In 2007, Kathleen received the Associate degree from the Royal Canadian College of Organists and was awarded the Charles Peaker Prize for the second highest mark overall, and the Barker prize for the highest mark in the playing test portion of the exam.