Our Vision
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Our Teachers
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Meet the Experts
Our team of specialists have more than 60 years of experience in teaching, and most hold graduate degrees in the sciences.
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CANDACE BERKELEY
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
PRESERVED MATERIALS AND MICROSCOPE SLIDES
Carolina’s resident expert on preserved materials and microscope slides got her start in science with handfuls of rocks and insects.
“I have always loved science,” says product manager Candace Berkeley. “When I was little, I was always collecting bugs and rocks; I was fascinated by the natural world…
JULIE STUBBS
PRODUCT MANAGER
ZOOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY, AND BOTANY
Julie’s experience at Carolina began with Distance Learning and has led to managing creation of biology materials across all grade levels.
“I have a lot of expertise in genetics,” she says. “That’s my main educational and research background.”…
RYAN HAINEY
PRODUCT MANAGER
BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENETICS, AND FORENSICS
Ryan’s heart—specifically his aorta—drew him into science.
As a fourth grader facing heart surgery, he was full of questions for his doctors that would soon develop into general interest in biology.
“I feel like that was my first real moment that made we want to go into science,” he says…
SARAH KNOTTS
PRODUCT MANAGER
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES
Sarah’s dedication to science hasn’t wavered since her days of lockers and school lunches.
“In high school, I really just enjoyed science,” she says. “Even through college, it was never my best subject, but I loved learning.”
Biology and microbiology were favorites for the now-product manager over anatomy…
AMY MEARNS
PRODUCT MANAGER
MICROSCOPES AND CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Amy Mearns’ success as our product manager for microscopes and Career and Technical Education (CTE) is built on years of experience rather than her college degree. Though she enjoyed biology and AP biology in high school, Amy was set on going to graduate school to become a therapist after graduation before joining Carolina in 2008 in….
CRYSTAL RISKO
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
EARTH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, AND AP LIFE SCIENCES
Crystal Risko has chased after science since she was a small child trading in her usual dresses and frills for animals and the outdoors.
“The only time my mom ever saw me get dirty was when I was chasing some sort of creature or when I wanted to go to the stables to go horseback …
FELICIA CHERRY
PRODUCT MANAGER
CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE
What fondness Felicia Cherry lacks for biology, she channels into chemistry.
Now Carolina’s product manager for Chemistry, Physics and Physical Science, Felicia was first encouraged to pursue science in college through the support of her high school physical science, chemistry, and physics teachers…
SARAH BOTTORFF
PRODUCTION MANAGER
GENETICS AND BOTONY
A self-described perpetual student, Sarah Bottorff has always been dedicated to advancing her own science education—and that of students and her own daughter.
Long before becoming our production manager for genetics and botany, Sarah was a child growing up in the Appalachian foothills south….
