Biography
Brae comes from Colorado, a beautiful state which left her with an enduring love of horses, mountains, and cowboy bars. After graduating from the University of Colorado, she moved to Chicago where she soon started graduate school in the English department at The University of Chicago. She then moved to Austria to join her husband where she attended university and worked as an inhouse and freelance translator. Brae and Norm loved living in Europe and remained for another five years, returning because Brae wanted to finish her MA at UofC.
Back home in Chicago she completed the MA and continued to work as a freelance translator in diverse areas such as medicine, sci-tech, academic papers, government documents,, and literature. She also returned once again to The University of Chicago, this time to the German department, and spent several very happy years working toward a PhD in psychoanalytic theory.
She has been a student all her life, and this desire to learn does in many ways define her life. The Graham School has given her an incredible opportunity to continue studying, reading and learning in classes with others like her and with superb instructors who themselves studied at UofC. She began the Basic Program in 2017 and has been enrolled in classes ever since. It has become an enormously rewarding and indispensable part of her life.
She hopes that the Graham School will continue to provide this remarkable opportunity for lifelong learners for many years to come. But Graham cannot be taken for granted. Those who cherish sustained education, especially in the humanities, must continue to support and fund this incomparable place.