Tanya Chartier has been an educator for two decades.  Currently an Educational Therapist at The Davidson Center, Tanya has taught in public and private settings including as a middle school reading specialist, theatre teacher, multi-age elementary teacher, and teacher educator at the collegiate level. Between her undergraduate studies in English Literature at Denison University and graduate studies in the Teaching of Reading at Western Michigan University, Tanya studied literacy in Japan as a Fulbright Fellow.