Education is fundamental to the of development one\u2019s life.
Kay Hannahan knows this well.<\/p>\r\n
Hannahan is a first-year professor in the Mass Communication department at Winona State University. <\/p>\r\n
She got into teaching after graduating college at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. <\/p>\r\n
After graduating, she returned home to Minnesota where she later joined AmeriCorps in their welfare to work program.
In this program she taught immigrants \u201chow to write a resume and how to interview.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
She enjoyed volunteering and said made connections and taught people valuable life skills.<\/p>\r\n
Hannahan then joined the Peace Corps where Hannahan \u201ctaught English in a really small village school.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
One of her memorable moments while in Peace Corps in Bulgaria, was when she was walking down the street with fellow Peace Corp members when some of her students stopped to say hello to them in English in what sounded like a Minnesota accent. <\/p>\r\n
From there, Hannahan went to graduate school at Temple University in Philadelphia where she taught as an assistant in the film program. <\/p>\r\n
After spending time on the east coast and outside the United States, she returned to Minnesota in 2019 to look for teaching jobs.<\/p>\r\n
Then in March of 2020 a day before the declaration of the pandemic she gave birth to her son Duke. <\/p>\r\n
Not only was Hannahan juggling finding a job she said, \u201cI always joke that there\u2019s no postpartum book that tells you how to be a mother during a pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
Shortly after her baby was born, she was officially hired on to be a part of WSU\u2019s Mass Communication department in June 2020.<\/p>\r\n
She had to deal with the pandemic and being a new mother, Hannahan choose to have an online delivery mode for her WSU classes this year. <\/p>\r\n