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Stephanie Cooper
President
Gregory Hunt
Treasurer
Shannon Thackeray
Secretary
Stephanie’s lifelong passion is teaching children and strengthening families! She is an experienced preschool teacher, mother of four amazing children (2 girls and 2 boys), and creator of Treasure Tree Academy Preschool and Early Childhood Educational Programs. She is still currently the school’s Director of Education. Stephanie’s Bachelor’s degree is in Family Life from BYU. She also completed an International Internship with BYU in 2009 studying child development at a Children’s Hospital and Orphanage in Romania. Stephanie has been a Title-1 Aide and a math & reading tutor for many years and knows first-hand how crucial it is to prepare our preschool children to be ready for their upcoming elementary experience.
Before founding Treasure Tree Academy in 2014, Stephanie taught preschool at the top-rated private school in Utah County. Now, she loves sharing her passion and skills in educating children with families in her very own community. Stephanie loves the outdoors, traveling, spending time with her family, and being a part of the miraculous growth and development of young children. Stephanie and her husband have been married since 2005.
Gregory Hunt is a native Utahn, having spent the majority of his life in small towns tucked into the beautiful surrounding mountains. He and his wife have 5 beautiful and rambunctious children. He is an educator, working in elementary and middle school settings. As both a father and educator, Gregory knows the power of a high quality education.
Outside of work, Gregory has held positions of leadership in his community, and has started different community outreach programs. He is very community minded, and works hard to make the area he lives in a better place to be.
In his free time, Gregory is an avid reader, teaches guitar lessons, paints, and tells stories to anyone who will listen.
Shannon Thackeray is a semi-native of Utah. She was born in Utah and bounced around the states to Florida and Oregon, before landing in Utah for the last two decades. She is a graduate of BYU in Family Studies and spends her time working for a local non-profit.
She is a part of Circles Utah Valley where they strive to help low-income families reach stability and thrive through relationships created across social classes. She is passionate about opportunities for growth and development in children and believes everyone deserves the best start in childhood.
Her passion is her family, especially her nieces, and nephews. She loves being the favorite aunt and the world's best babysitter. In her spare time, you can find her sewing, cooking, cleaning, gardening, reading, and telling long-winded stories bound to make you laugh. She is a real renaissance woman.
