Name: Gabriela Kula

Degree: ‘19 M.Ed. Curriculum & Instruction

Current Employer: Fragner Seifert Pace & Mintz

Have you ever experienced teacher burnout? How did you navigate that?

When I was teaching the video production program in journalism. I wasn’t interacting with other teachers. I was just isolated in this computer lab by myself, and nobody else was teaching the curriculum I was teaching. My UNLV classes and my Teach for America program were really helpful with that because it gave me a time every week to go to class and talk about the issues I was dealing with in the classroom.

What skills did you gain as a teacher that are or have become useful for you?

I found my teaching skills so helpful for law school itself. When you’re a teacher, you become the perfect student. That was really helpful for going back to school because I knew that you had to be an active listener. You have to take notes in a way that you’ll remember. All of these things that maybe I wouldn’t have paid attention to if I didn’t learn it as a teacher first.

Tell me about you as a person not a professional. Favorite hobbies? 

I lived in Boston for college, then I moved to Vegas to teach, and then I moved to San Diego for law school. I’ve traveled at least a little bit. I’ve spent my twenties all around the country, which was really cool. These days, I do things that excite me. I try to go to concerts wherever I can. I just went to Mau P. He’s a DJ, and he does these crazy long sets. I went to one of his sets, and it was six hours long.

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