Garyanna L. Stalick is a retired early childhood specialist with an undergraduate degree in psychology from George Fox University in Newberg, OR and a MEd in Special Education from Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR. She taught and case managed young children with special needs for more than twenty years. As a teacher of children with developmental disabilities, she worked with numerous speech therapists in the classroom to improve language skills. She is currently the vice chair of the Linn County Commission on Children and Families in Albany, OR.
Garyanna and her late husband, Jim, were the parents of two children, and along with her new husband, Bob, she now is the grandmother of fourteen.