Ms. Kina has spent the past twelve years working in education and holds a BA in Science and an MA in Education. She enjoys the close relationships between the staff and students at The NET.
"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together"
"Really what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives HOPE."
“Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."- Rita Pierson
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Fredrick Douglass
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" Maya Angelou
Ms.Kim Legaux is a founding staff member of The NET: Central City and will be bringing her insight and experience to the Gentilly campus for the Fall 2018 semester. She worked for an adolescent drug rehab facility as a supervisor and at Bridge City as a therapeutic dorm leader. She has been working in education for over 20 years. She made the decision to become an educator while volunteering in her daughter's Pre-K class, after she was asked to sub for the teacher. Ms. Kim was also a Girl Scout troop leader and a cheerleading coach. She originally wanted to be a nurse but fell in love with working with kids and cites her daughter as her motivation to keep going. Ms. Kim runs the food pantry and the Period Poverty project for both campuses. Her door is always open to students, families, and staff who need a listening ear, a motherly lecture, a connection to a resource, or a funny story to cheer up their day.
“I expect my students to try their best.”
Before moving to New Orleans in 2016, Beverly Potashner taught in New Jersey for 15 years. She studied at Rider University in New Jersey for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Ms. Beverly loves working with the kids and staff at The NET, where everyone is very supportive and she always expects students to try their best. In her free time, she enjoys hanging out with her family, going on long walks, reading, and being with her two dong’s Jenna and Emerson. The person that made Ms.potashner want to become an educator was that she had an amazing guidance counselor that encouraged her to become an educator.
Biography by NET student JaNaria
“A great student is what the teacher hopes to be.”
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." Malcolm X
Confucius: "Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."
Ms.Arielle Brown was born and raised in Lafayette, LA to a mother who retired after 35 years in Special Education to take care of her sick grandmother, pastor a church, and pursue her own personal dreams, and a father from Alabama who was a retired artist, builder, and brick mason. He passed in 2023 from old age and cancer. After receiving her Bachelor's in Communications and Business from UL-Lafayette, she completed the Master of Social Work program at Southern University N.O. and clinical internship with Children's Bureau, then immediately dove into outpatient Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, taking a brief contract at a local high school and then enjoying 5 years at Arthur Ashe Charter School. As both a social worker and entrepreneur, Ms.Brown loves helping others see and grow the light in themselves to reach internal and external goals.