The Satellite Management Team
Dawn Skinner - Director
Dawn is a true Georgia native. She was born in Atlanta and has lived in the Lawrenceville area for over 15 years. She has over 12 years of experience in Early Childhood Education. During that time she spent 9 years as a classroom teacher and has worked with different age groups from 2 years old to school age children.
In June 2004, Dawn proudly joined the Legacy Academy family and helped to open the Legacy Academy Suwanee location as their Lead Senior Toddler teacher. After working there for a little over 2 years, she was offered a management position at the Satellite location. In October 2003, she helped to set up and open Legacy Academy Satellite as the Assistant Director and then moved into the Director's position in August of 2004.
Dawn takes great pride in the fact that her center was the first Legacy to offer a full time bilingual program to the children. The Satellite location has an amazing multi cultural melting pot, and the families, children and staff here love it. She firmly believes in Legacy Academy's mission statement and feels that the quality of early care and education offered at every Legacy is second to none. Working with young children and helping to provide a safe, nurturing and educationally stimulating environment for them is a privilege that she takes very seriously. In her spare time she enjoys painting, cooking, decorating her home and garden and most of all she enjoys spending time with her three children.
Nayree Torrealba - Assistant Director
Born in Venezuela, Nayree holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Informatics Engineering. She began working at Legacy when they opened in October of 2003. Working with children has been one of the most beautiful experiences in her professional life. Watching the growth and development of the children along with her own children has been an irreplaceable experience.
Grisselle Rodriguez - Curriculum Coordinator
Grisselle joined the Legacy team in January of 2005. She has a degree in Elementary Education and has many years of experience working with young children. Grisselle is originally from Puerto Rico. She has lived in the United States since 1990 and has lived in Georgia since 2003. In her spare time when Grisselle is not spending time with her family of four, she enjoys making cakes and decorating.
Arely Orta - Spanish Coordinator
Arely is also from Caracas, Venezuela. She graduated from Andres Catholic University where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. She holds a Masters degree in Learning Process. Arely has 20 years of experience in early childhood education. She and her husband Hector moved to Georgia in 2000. She worked at the Atlanta International School for two years and now has developed a Spanish program to run parallel with the Legacy Framework for Their Future TM curriculum.
Kari Lemoine - Front Desk Assistant
Kari has over five years experience working in early care and education. She joined the Legacy Academy family in August 2004, as a teacher in the Senior Toddler class and then worked as an assistant teacher in our Georgia Pre-K class during the 2005-2006 school year. Now she is a Front Desk Assistant. Kari is currently working on getting her Bachelors degree in Art Education. She is looking forward to becoming an Elementary Art teacher in the near future.
Kari grew up in eastern Pennsylvania and moved to Georgia in July 2004, with her husband. Her work with young children is truly rewarding, and she is amazed to see how the children at Legacy Academy Satellite have grown and developed new skills. She cannot wait to have children of her own. In her spare time, Kari likes to spend time with her husband as well as her family. She also enjoys cooking, cleaning, decorating and drawing.
Alejandra Guitterez - Front Desk Assistant
Alejandra Gutierrez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and has lived in Georgia for over 11 years. She joined Legacy Academy in March of 2006, and has worked with our Jr. Toddlers, 3 Year Olds, and School Agers. Now she assists at our front desk.
She says that working with children is the best experience she has ever had and that she enjoys learning something new from them every day. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, shopping, reading, going to the gym and most of all she enjoys spending time with her son and family.
