What a great conversation with Nancy! Nancy Beane grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. She has a B.A. with Honors from Agnes Scott College, an M.A.T. in History from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an Ed.S. in Social Studies from Georgia State University. After teaching for fifteen years in elementary and secondary public schools, she moved to The Westminster Schools in 1989, taught history there for many years and became one of their college counselors in 1992, a position she held until she retired in June of 2020. While at Westminster, she was actively involved in College Board, The Southern Association for College Admission Counseling , the National Association for College Admission Counseling, Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools, and The Georgia Independent Colleges Association. She was SACAC President from 2004-2005, served on the NACAC Board from 2008-2011, was a member of the ACCIS Board of Trustees from 2012 to 2015, and was again a member of the NACAC Board from 2015-2018 during which she served as president in 2016-2017. Married to John Beane, a retired attorney, she and her husband have one fabulous daughter, Kathryn, and one precious dog, Wyatt.