<span style="font-size: 7.5pt;color: black;font-family: Verdana">Ms. Barefield was born in Chicago and raised in Evanston, IL.  She graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1992.  She spent two years traveling and working before going to college at The University of Colorado at Boulder.  In 1998, she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in English and Film Studies.  After college, she worked in the film and television industry.  In between jobs, she volunteered at different social service agencies around Chicago.  This experience inspired her to leave entertainment and teach full time.  She earned a Master's Degree in 2003 from National Louis University in Secondary Education.  Her first four years of teaching were spent in London, England where she taught middle school and high school in both Media Studies and English.  She has been working for Chicago Public Schools since returning from abroad in 2007.  She worked at Northside College Prep High School and then moved to The School of Entrepreneurship at South Shore, where she is currently in her second year.  Ms. Barefield teaches two classes of Freshman Reading, one class of Sophomore Journalism, and two classes of Senior World Literature.  She lives on the north side of the city and writes in her spar</span>