Vicky Post is an aspiring educator at Penn State who loves literature and writing. Her focal point as a teacher is the power of having an emotional outlet through creative expression. As a result, she spends most of her free time reading, writing, meditating, singing, playing her ukulele, and painting.  

Vicky was raised by a theatre educator, which helped foster her love of storytelling. She would fit herself into the stories she read and saw, and she would write new stories along the way. As a high schooler, her theatrical life included playing Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank and Crissy in Hair the Musical. On the creative direction side, she directed Beauty and the Beast her junior year of high school and worked as a vocal intern at Hilton Head Jazz Camp. Her favorite experiences were the ones where she was able to see growing perspectives and confidence in the people she worked with.  

Theatre provided powerful tools for perspective building, and her passion for this was ignited further when she took her first college literature course and began to analyze stories and find her own interpretations. On another level, she found creative writing offered her comfort and a place for her to process what she struggled to speak aloud. In her sophomore year of college, she published her poetry and was a recipient of the Jake Cranage Poetry Award. As a Penn State Learning tutor and a trainer of TAs in BiSci 3, a class that expands empathy and connection, she loves finding way to increase confidence, calmness, and connection among her students. When she becomes a middle school English teacher, she hopes to help her students find the same comforting, holistic spaces in writing and literature that have guided her through the years.