Kristen Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Divinity from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Having served with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Paris, France after college, she has taught and substitute taught in public schools, private schools, and Christian schools. Her passion is to work alongside families and like-minded colleagues in teaching and mentoring these dear upper school students to know who they are and whose they are for the glory of the Lord. She and her husband, Dana, who is the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Middleboro, have three amazing boys and a dog named Boo.