Maura Kelly joined the RC community of learners in 1999 as an English teacher and went on to lead as the English Department Chair for nine years starting in 2011. In the fall of 2020 she started to serve as the Dean of Faculty while also staying in the classroom as a teacher of AP Language and Composition. Maura’s educational career started in 1991 in Lesotho, Southern Africa, where she was a volunteer Peace Corps teacher for two years followed by four years of teaching in the United States in Maryland before coming to Turkey.