Rank:	Assistant Professor of Education
Department:	The Frances Kain Shevenaugh Department of Education
Office:	Perry T. Ford Memorial Library
Phone:	260.665.4805
E-mail:	pomeroyk@tristate.edu
Education:	B.A. Elementary English and English (University of Northern Colorado) M.S. (Language Education Indiana University)
Bio:	Professor Kathy Pomeroy encourages her pre-service teacher candidates and local teachers to take a multicultural stance in their elementary and secondary classrooms. She is especially interested in cross-curricular literacy applications with an eye to the implications of pertinent social justice issues in daily student-and- teacher interactions. She is also a board member of the Steuben County Literacy Coalition and trains home visitors, who undertake in-home interventions to empower parents to prepare children more thoroughly for kindergarten. She is also involved in staff development in several local school corporations. She and her husband enjoy traveling. Recently, they visited Germany and Austria. In addition, she enjoys cooking and entertaining. Each semester her classes appreciate her cuisine during “Breakfast at Professor Pomeroy’s House.”