TEAM
Meet the Team behind US|wild|THEMS
Kimmothy Cole
Kimmothy Cole is a trans non-binary educator, organizer and creator living in central Virginia. Cole has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre, is a certified Embodied Social Justice practitioner and Movement Chaplain, and has spent 20 years organizing intergenerational community in spiritual, educational and creative environments. Their career in education includes time as Director of a summer camp for immigrant populations through Communities in Schools, Education Coordinator for Davidson Communities Players, planning and executing social emotional learning for PreK classes as a Teaching Artist through Creative Action and Wolf Trap, guiding early childhood education at small private and in-home childcare facilities, leading an award-winning ability-inclusive program as a High School Theatre Teacher in rural North Carolina, and coordinating intergenerational programming as the Director of Family Ministries for Servant Church UMC (Austin, TX). Cole was the Founding Artistic Director of TAPROOT, a multi-disciplinary performance collective in Charlotte, NC. During their tenure, they produced new performance work across the US, coordinated educational programming for children and adults, and project managed large-scale festivals alongside intimate events. They are an award-winning theatre producer and performer who continues to produce programming locally and throughout the Southeast. Their ancestral Celtic culture inspires a connection with the natural world that prioritizes alignment with the ecosystem and right relationship with our human and non-human kin. Cole believes in ability and age inclusive community that values the many different shades of wisdom that humans access throughout their life. Trained in consensus-based decision making, Cole teaches consent culture and meaningful conflict resolution at all ages.
Kimmothy Cole is a trans non-binary educator, organizer and creator living in central Virginia. Cole has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre, is a certified Embodied Social Justice practitioner and Movement Chaplain, and has spent 20 years organizing intergenerational community in spiritual, educational and creative environments. Their career in education includes time as Director of a summer camp for immigrant populations through Communities in Schools, Education Coordinator for Davidson Communities Players, planning and executing social emotional learning for PreK classes as a Teaching Artist through Creative Action and Wolf Trap, guiding early childhood education at small private and in-home childcare facilities, leading an award-winning ability-inclusive program as a High School Theatre Teacher in rural North Carolina, and coordinating intergenerational programming as the Director of Family Ministries for Servant Church UMC (Austin, TX). Cole was the Founding Artistic Director of TAPROOT, a multi-disciplinary performance collective in Charlotte, NC. During their tenure, they produced new performance work across the US, coordinated educational programming for children and adults, and project managed large-scale festivals alongside intimate events. They are an award-winning theatre producer and performer who continues to produce programming locally and throughout the Southeast. Their ancestral Celtic culture inspires a connection with the natural world that prioritizes alignment with the ecosystem and right relationship with our human and non-human kin. Cole believes in ability and age inclusive community that values the many different shades of wisdom that humans access throughout their life. Trained in consensus-based decision making, Cole teaches consent culture and meaningful conflict resolution at all ages.
Dr. Jamie Loving
Aside from being an Early Childhood Education Coach, I am also a literacy tutor for a literacy intervention company known as Ignite. Schools around the US hire this company to catch their students up!
Education has always been my passion! Half way through my degree, I realized what I really wanted to do for education (and also what I really didn't want to do). By that point, I was already too far in monetarily and time wise, so I finished the Ed. D out of principle. My Capstone was with The Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond planning an outline for the VA Literacy Coalition's future operations; our focus was on 0-5 Literacy Intervention.
I teach kids in the community how to have fun with reading at no cost one Sunday each month. I am so happy to be a part Us Wild Thems. Being a part of a team like this feels so supportive. And it feels so good to feel like we are being supportive to our community too.
J McClain
J. McClain is a Non-binary person who enjoys a good joke, game, puzzle or weird sport. They have worked with children for over 15 years both teaching and learning from young people ages 2-19. They are a constant reader, poet, artist, and proud guncle of seven. They are most interested in creating an education system that works for all of us, not just some of us.