Please welcome Chasda Clendinen-Watkins to her role as the Director for Math and Science. Chasda is originally from the beautiful island of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, one of the emeralds of the sea. She has lived in several states on both the West and East Coasts, but the Pacific Northwest is by far her favorite area.
Chasda attended North Carolina State University for two years, where she double majored in biological sciences and botany before transferring back home to the University of the Virgin Islands, where she changed her major to mathematics with a minor in physics. She later completed her master’s degree in mathematics for secondary education. Chasda’s academic interests span both the science and math areas as well as history and literature. She has taught middle school through university levels and has been a supervisor at both a medical institute and a university in multiple capacities as well as implementing and creating new curriculum.
In her spare time, Chasda enjoys spending time with her family, gardening, collecting and propagating plants, cooking, listening to music, art, exploring the outdoors, sewing, playing with tools and donating to her community. Chasda is grateful for the opportunity to work with both the math and science departments and is looking forward to contributing to the success and fruitful growth of the departments and the individuals who work hard to support them.