Christy Bahrenburg was born and raised in Shelburne. After spending some time away from Vermont, she and her husband decided they wanted to move back to Shelburne to raise their family. Christy is very active within the community. Here are the details.

Family: Christy and her husband, Jack, met when the two were going to UVM. They will have been married for 14 years come early July. Jack and his business partner own Quantitative Partners Inc. Christy and Jack have two children: Brooks is 10 and will be in the fifth grade in the fall, and JB is eight and will enter third grade in the fall. Both of the children go to the Shelburne Community School (SCS).

Education and career: Christy attended SCS as a child, spent one year at CVU, and then transferred to Rice High School for the last three years of high school. She then went to UVM and majored in political science and minored in history. During her time at UVM Christy held an internship in Washington D.C. with Jim Jeffords. After graduation from college, Christy and Jack moved to Colorado for a year and then moved back to Vermont for five years. Christy's first job following graduation was with the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation under the department of agriculture. This was during the first Bush administration and after Bush lost the presidential race to Clinton; Christy laughs and says that she got her "pink slip." When she and her husband returned to Vermont for five years, Christy worked for the Boys and Girls club as its capital campaign coordinator. After the campaign was finished, Christy went on to work for Paul Kaza Associates in its public relations department. She worked here for five years. Next, Jack and she decided to move to California. Jack is from Hawaii and had family in California, and they moved to San Diego. Christy worked in public relations there until she became pregnant with their first child. After seven years in California, the couple decided it was time to return to Vermont to raise their family. Now, in between taking care of her children, Christy does interior decorating consultations and some freelance public relations.

Volunteer work: Christy is a very active member of the community. For the past five years she has worked to start the Green Mountain Children's Museum. The museum is intended as a hands-on learning museum for children from birth to age eight and is currently looking for a location.

Christy also teaches religious education at St. Catherine's in Shelburne. For the past three years she has taught the second grade communion class, and next year she will teach sixth graders.

This mom is also very active at SCS and volunteers at Rice High School.

Favorite food: Thai food and risotto at La Villa

Favorite music: Jack Johnson, Sean Colvin

Hobbies: Read, cook, garden, and run

Favorite Movie: "Far and Away"

Pets: A Bernese mountain dog/Jack Russell terrier mix named Koa, and a cat named Peter

First concert: Stray Cats at Memorial Auditorium

Bucket list: To watch her children grow up and enjoy life, to visit more national parks, and to take a hiking or biking tour in Europe