Special Education Parent Fellow

Kelly Fields is a Learning Support Specialist at Lakeview Academy where she supports students with various learning needs, both in and out of the general education classroom. Her passion is advocating for students and parents and connecting families within the special needs community to the resources available to them. Kelly is also a wife and a mother of four children, one of whom is Autistic and Epileptic. Kelly is entering her twenty-second year of teaching this Fall and is excited to be a part of the GeorgiaCAN 2023-2024 Parent Fellowship. She hopes to leverage her experiences as both an educator and special needs parent to benefit the special needs community on a broader scale.