Nancy B. Tanzer has a BA with honors in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA and CAS in Education from Fairfield University, and completed the MALS program at Dartmouth. She had careers in advertising, development and public relations, and taught high school economics, government, African Studies, and history for 20 years in Westport. CT. In Vermont she has been a docent at Billings Farm, a Trustee and Docent at VINS, and is currently Education Chair at the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation.