My name is Christopher Boucher, and I am a 2025 graduate of Kutztown University, where I earned my Master's degree in Secondary Education. I also graduated from King's College in 2020, where I earned my bachelor's degree in English, Communications, and Creative Writing.
I have multiple teaching experiences in various school districts, academic settings, and with diverse student populations. I worked at Northampton High School as a paraprofessional for their autistic support classroom. As a one-on-one paraprofessional, I would help create and execute activities prepared by the classroom teacher while also monitoring student behavior. I have worked as an assistant swim coach at Dieruff High School, where I assisted the head coaches in managing team practices and competitions while also collaborating with multiple physical instructors to help maintain the athletes' physical condition and skill. During my student teaching, I co-taught 8th-grade English and Language Arts at Eyer Middle School alongside Mr. Daniel Kukitz. I would regularly develop lesson plans and curate resources to support instruction for multiple student learners, including those with learning support needs, multilingual learners, and gifted enrichment. I often collaborated with various teachers to enhance my teaching. I communicated with my students daily with announcements and assignments that helped build a strong classroom rapport.
During my undergraduate career, I served as the entertainment manager for my college's newspaper, participated in our creative writing club, Cambion Society, and submitted samples of my work to our semester magazine, The SCOP. I have also had the privilege of co-authoring an essay with my professor, Dr. Robin Field, on superheroes and disabilities, which was included in a published collection in 2021. We presented our essay at the 2019 Popular Culture Association Expo held in Washington, D.C. I participated in the New York University Summer Publishing Institute, where I learned the fundamentals of magazine and book publishing.
Currently, I live in my hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania, where I work as a freelance reporter and photographer for the Lehigh Valley Press. I also work part-time as a bookseller at Barnes and Noble. In my free time, I enjoy reading books, playing video games, and working on writing my first novel. My dream is to one day become a published science fiction and fantasy author. I know one day I will get there!