Liv

Welcome Liv!

This fall is Liv Harmening’s (she/her) first school year as a full time facilitator and Advisor at Puget Sound Community School. Liv  moved here this summer from Illinois to join the PSCS Teaching Staff, after undergoing a weeks-long collaborative hiring process that included students, teachers, directors. Her experience, skills, personality, and awareness of positionality, are a welcome addition to the community.

Liv was raised in the south suburbs of Chicago, on Neshnabé, Potawatomi land, with her three best friends (her siblings!). She most recently moved from Ravenswood, where she could see the lights of Wrigley Field from her window.

Why PSCS?

“PSCS is built as an intentionally collaborative teaching environment and centers connection in the school’s ethos AND daily schedule. Students and staff learn alongside and with one another, which is why I’m here. It’s the exact right place to grow and support others as a member of this community.”

Experience & Expertise

Liv came to PSCS with experience in K-12 schools, university classrooms, as well as adult education and training. She has worked in Civil Rights and Title IX, at a sexual assault crisis center, served as a public health manager responsible for an HIV testing and PEP/PrEP counseling team, as a B1G Ten college admissions counselor. Liv has even taught wheel throwing pottery classes.

After earning her education bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Liv completed all coursework for her Sexual Health Certificate at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. She is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator and Certified Continuing Education Provider.

Passions, Skills, & Interests

Outside of school, Liv trains sexuality professionals looking to grow their facilitation skills. Besides her passion for sexual education, health, and anatomy, she has skills and interest in facilitating math and sciences, as well as some outside exploration for PSCS students. After hours, you can find her at the ceramics studio, sewing, quilting, spending time with friends, or recharging at home with a puzzle. Her latest fascination? KILLER WHALES.

As a queer neurodivergent adult, Liv is eager to advise students to explore their passions, identify their learning edge(s), practice discomfort, discover executive functioning tools that work for them, and to always always stay curious.