Carie Skinner - KEYNOTE SPEAKER

We are so excited for our keynote speaker for our Arcadia Stake Women's Conference which will be held on Saturday, January 25, at 9:00 at the Foothill Building.  Get to know her. 

"Carie Jones Skinner was born and raised in a small town in Washington state. She was lucky enough to have 4 sisters (the oldest one being Arcadia Stake’s own Trista Jones Ogilvie!) Carie went to BYU for college and probably had a little too much fun as her B+ grade point average may attest. Carie met her husband, everyone’s favorite, Mark Skinner while at school. They were sealed in the Seattle, Washington temple. By the time she left BYU she had a degree in History, a minor in English, a husband and a child on the way! Carie and Mark have four brilliant, charming, darling children: Hailey, Andrew, Harrison and Avery. They are lucky enough to have one amazing daughter in law who can do no wrong. The Skinners have lived in Utah, Nevada and California, but they spent most of their child rearing years - 17 in total - in a leafy suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. They moved back west to Corona, CA seven years ago. Carie is interested in pretty much everything and everyone. She is funny and clever and never runs out of things to say and has never met a stranger. She loves her family, reading, walking, and hot chocolate. (Not necessarily in that order.) While she was primarily a stay at home mom, she also worked part time for Anthropologie for years and as a county librarian. Now that they are empty nesters, Carie has her dream job as an elementary school librarian. She relishes having a captive audience of small children to read books to all day. Carie loves the gospel of Jesus Christ. She has served the Lord throughout her life in many callings: a seminary teacher, Primary president, Primary song leader (who got by on personality over skill), in Stake Relief Society presidencies, as Stake Young Women’s president, but most often as a teacher.