Meet our Day School Director
Mrs. Katie Allen
Mrs. Allen was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a BA in Economics. In her professional life, she has served as Head of Corporate Sales and Marketing for a human resources Company, Head of Market Development for a pharmaceutical company, and worked in market development for an Upstate travel company.
Mrs. Allen has a wide range of early childhood educational experience. She has taught four and five-year-old kindergarten at Eastlan Baptist Church, she has served as a music teacher at Christ Episcopal Preschool and at Eastlan Child Development Center, and has operated a Kindermusik studio at both Eastan and Furman University. She has also worked with developmentally delayed children in a self-contained classroom environment for Greenville County Schools.
Mrs. Allen also has a broad range of experience in educational administration in Greenville County Public Schools having served as Administrative Assistant at Taylors Elementary School for the past eight years.
Mrs. Allen is a confirmed Episcopalian and was married in the Episcopal Church. She and her husband Bill have been married for thirty years and have been members of St. James Parish since 2000. She has served as Children’s Ministry Leader, Head of Children’s Formation Committee, Mission Trip Leader and Planner, EYC Director, VBS Coordinator and Teacher, Lay Reader, and Head of St. James’ Annual Angel Tree Christmas Project. In addition, she is a graduate of and has served as a facilitator for the Education For Ministry (EFM) Program of the School of Theology at the University of the South.
Mrs. Allen and her husband reside in Greenville and have two grown sons, Emerson and James.
Mrs. Allen has a wide range of early childhood educational experience. She has taught four and five-year-old kindergarten at Eastlan Baptist Church, she has served as a music teacher at Christ Episcopal Preschool and at Eastlan Child Development Center, and has operated a Kindermusik studio at both Eastan and Furman University. She has also worked with developmentally delayed children in a self-contained classroom environment for Greenville County Schools.
Mrs. Allen also has a broad range of experience in educational administration in Greenville County Public Schools having served as Administrative Assistant at Taylors Elementary School for the past eight years.
Mrs. Allen is a confirmed Episcopalian and was married in the Episcopal Church. She and her husband Bill have been married for thirty years and have been members of St. James Parish since 2000. She has served as Children’s Ministry Leader, Head of Children’s Formation Committee, Mission Trip Leader and Planner, EYC Director, VBS Coordinator and Teacher, Lay Reader, and Head of St. James’ Annual Angel Tree Christmas Project. In addition, she is a graduate of and has served as a facilitator for the Education For Ministry (EFM) Program of the School of Theology at the University of the South.
Mrs. Allen and her husband reside in Greenville and have two grown sons, Emerson and James.
