Mrs. Furse grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, but has been living with her family in Dolores, Colorado for over 12 years. She enjoys gardening, mountain biking, camping, hiking, picking wildflowers, and reading fantasy novels. She graduated from Fort Lewis College, majoring in Elementary Education with a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) minor. She also graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and spent much of her youth involved in theatre. She feels incredibly lucky to be teaching in a community that she loves dearly.