Time Flies When You're Having Fun
Amy and David Sanchez met as SESP undergraduates. Today they’re raising two children in Seattle and building careers in education.
As SESP celebrates its 100th anniversary, alums Amy (Glazier-Torgerson) Sanchez (BS15) and David Sanchez (BS17) are marking their own milestone: 10 years of marriage. The couple met in 2014 as undergraduates while working with Northwestern’s chapter of Jumpstart, a national program that trains students to work with preschoolers. They married in 2016 and moved to Seattle after David graduated.
David now works as a speech-language pathologist in an elementary school, where he uses Jumpstart books in language activities, and at his private practice Brave Stuttering Therapy. He earned a master’s degree in the field from the University of Washington in 2021. Amy, an avid marathoner, is assistant head of middle school and a school counselor at Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland, Washington, and a running coach with the Running Joyfully group.
“At Northwestern we loved the community of amazing educators and the laughs with the kids at Jumpstart,” Amy says. The Sanchezes are now reading their Jumpstart books to their own children: Manny, age five, and Maya, two. Hooray, a Piñata! is always a hit, David says, but their hearts will always belong to The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza. “It’s a cool full-circle moment."
Follow their journey through one very special picture.
