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Instructors

Every class is taught by someone from the neighborhood who actually does this stuff.

Family archivist who has digitized four generations of home movies

Longtime practitioner who trained in vinyasa flow after ten years of home practice

Retired cabinetmaker who still smells like sawdust

Community theater regular with more roles than she can count

Cooks the same recipes her mother taught her in Hyderabad

Self-taught letterer who does wedding invitations on the side

Portrait photographer who has shot senior pictures around Utah County for over a decade

Self-taught shooter who ditched her DSLR for a phone five years ago

Austin Gutierrez

Runs a small backyard kiln, been throwing pots since high school

Picked up macrame during a slow winter and never stopped

Choir director who believes everyone can carry a tune with practice

Trained briefly at a pastry school before coming home to Utah

Brenda McMillian

Longtime journal keeper and former counselor's aide

Graphic designer who edits photos for local small businesses on the side

Registered nurse who has worked night shifts and studied sleep for over a decade

Retired contractor, fixes his neighbors' stuff too

Cameron Dillard

Home automation hobbyist, wired his whole house

Korean-American home cook, family recipes, no gatekeeping

Cassandra Draper

Accidental spreadsheet person, three kids, one budget that works

Chance Sorensen

Weekend picker who finally learned to read music at 40

Self-taught cook who spent a summer in Bologna

Elementary music teacher who plays uke on her porch every summer

Grew up cooking alongside his grandmother in Jalisco

Master gardener, 20 years of Utah dirt

Former debt collector turned financial coach

Home cook who learned red sauce from his Italian grandmother

Native plant enthusiast, hikes the canyons for inspiration

Elizabeth Smith

Hobby collector who fell sideways into watercolor

Handbuilds ceramics inspired by Utah rock formations

Guided the Provo and Weber for over a decade

Dad who builds printers to fix junk drawers

Search and rescue volunteer for Utah County

Jennifer Mcgowan

Retired financial planner, now teaches retirement planning for fun

Home seamstress who mends before she buys new

Joanna Checketts

HR manager who has read thousands of résumés

Local mortgage loan officer, closed loans across Utah County for 15 years

Jordan Andersen

Grows tomatoes past the first frost every year

Credit union volunteer counselor, ten years of helping families budget

Home baker who feeds five kids and one very needy starter

Winter hiker who trades skis for snowshoes most weekends

Kathleen Andersen

Has kept a Utah County bird list for thirty years

Former line cook turned home cooking teacher

Has hiked every major trail in American Fork and Provo Canyons

Feeds her scout troop out of cast iron every summer

Certified yoga teacher who starts every day on her mat before sunrise

Kennedy Christiansen

Bilingual teacher who has taught Spanish to adults for over a decade

Kenneth Nielsen

Former bank fraud investigator

Former newspaper photographer, now shoots Utah County landscapes for fun

Family photo archivist by necessity

Leslie Christiansen

Bakes wedding cakes out of her home kitchen on weekends

Marilyn Bolander

Retired school secretary, four decades of yarn

Home cook and former grocery store dietitian who shops on a tight budget herself

Twenty years turning wrenches at a local shop

Retired cabinetmaker who still smells like sawdust

Matthew Dejesus

Licensed counselor who teaches breathwork alongside traditional talk therapy

Handyman who fixes his own century-old windows

Piano teacher who has taught three generations of the same families

Hosts a cookie exchange for thirty neighbors every December

Trail runner who knows every canyon access point along the Wasatch Front

Miranda Haskell

Plant shop volunteer with a windowsill jungle

Bilingual teacher who has taught Spanish to adults for over a decade

Morgan Peterson

Third-generation quilter, still uses her grandmother's thimble

Ties flies specifically for Utah's freestone streams

Randy Christiansen

Former sales trainer who has coached hundreds of nervous speakers

Raymond Hunsaker

Weekend picker who finally learned to read music at 40

Retired mail carrier who has walked every street in American Fork twice over

Former high school strength coach who now focuses on adults starting from zero

Ricky Rasmussen

Welder by trade, hobbyist metal artist by weekend

Bike shop mechanic and year-round commuter

Small business owner who does her own books

Sarah Tomlinson

Long-arm quilter who has finished over 200 quilts for others

Landscape designer who quit fighting the lawn

Sharon Atkinson

Retired steel framer who reads dough like a load calc

Sierra Peterson

Retired teacher who has spent years collecting her own family's stories

Spencer Nielsen

Paints Utah canyons and sells prints at local craft fairs

Stephanie Guzman

Self-taught decorator who redoes her own house often

Local musician who has been writing songs since high school

Runs a woodworking side business alongside his day job

Software developer who teaches beginners for fun

CODA (child of deaf adults) who grew up signing at home

IT support technician, professional file untangler

Preserves a garden's worth of produce every August

Valerie Adamson

Sells wire-wrapped stones at the farmers market every summer

Home seamstress who mends before she buys new

Built a backyard pizza oven and never looked back