Our Permanent Guest Teachers: Introducing Karen Lakkides!

This year, we have on staff five permanent Guest Teachers (aka Substitutes) who will be in our buildings every day. This has been done as a safety measure in limiting the exposure of our students and other faculty to more people. There are three teachers who are assigned to the Bloomfield Campus and two assigned to the Birmingham Campus. Since they are permanent fixtures on our campuses, we wanted you to get to know them and have asked each to tell us a little bit about themselves. In this post we are introducing Karen Lakkides who will be working at the Birmingham Campus!

Although originally from Kalamazoo, I have been living in Milford for the past 20 years. I have 3 daughters, one a graduate of U of M, one a junior at MSU, and one a junior in high school. My husband is Brian Lakkides '88, and he has always shared with us many great memories of his years at Roeper. I've been a guest teacher for various schools for the past 7 years, first with Cranbrook schools and Huron Valley Schools, and with Roeper for the past 4 years. My education is in biology and biochemistry, from both Kalamazoo College and MSU, and I've been fortunate to cover long-term guest teaching positions in several science and math classes. I enjoy hiking, supporting Detroit City FC, cooking, true crime, and crosswords. I truly enjoy guest teaching at Roeper, and supporting this community of students and faculty.