By Marie Bradby
Why We Chose Louisville
They own got seen the world. They own got successful careers. They could alive anywhere. They chose Louisville. Here are 3 transplants — tops inward their fields — who are making Louisville their forever habitation too stitching themselves into the quilt of life that is the Bluegrass. This is Kathy Stearman's Story.
From the World to Kentucky
“My project was amazing, peculiarly when I got to piece of work overseas,” says Kathy Stearman, who was an FBI agent for over 26 years. “I would run across people (counterparts inward allied countries) too they would say, ‘Oh my god, y'all own got thus much to instruct us.’ Even our partners would facial expression at us as, ‘You are the United States, y'all are the leaders.’ We demand to create ameliorate (with unusual relations) because others create thought us every bit the leaders of the world.”
She got her get-go gustation of the ability of the U.S. inward India. “I hadn’t been inward Republic of Republic of India real long when the equivalent of the FBI inward India, the CBI, called a coming together of legal attaché counterparts at embassies. The CBI inward Republic of Republic of India said, ‘I desire y'all all to come upwards to some consensus.’ The instance from 1 of our allied countries looked around too said, ‘What is the U.S. going to do? Because what y'all do, nosotros are going to follow.’ I thought, “‘I but got here. This was such a huge responsibility, too everyone is going to follow it.
“To me that was 1 of the get-go profound moments I had experienced overseas. I e'er kept that inward mind. It was my responsibleness to alive upwards to their expectations.”
Why Louisville
“I’m from Greensburg, Kentucky, nearly an hr too 45 minutes from here. It has 2 halt lights. I wanted to locomote too hold upwards adventurous. So I decided to create something different, something that women don’t unremarkably do. Someone suggested, why don’t y'all travail the FBI or the Secret Service, too I applied.
“My husband, Keith Glynn, had moved alongside me too my career for over thirty years. He is a chemic engineer too a network safety engineer. He protects estimator systems. When I retired out of San Francisco, nosotros initially went to Austin, Texas, for a twelvemonth too a half. We did non similar it.
“We both started looking exterior of Texas too he got a project offering from Humana inward Louisville. I’d been gone (from Kentucky) almost 35 years.
“I dear my family, but ever since I was a niggling girl, my oculus was on the horizon. I was getting out. Coming dorsum for me was hard. When nosotros told people nosotros were coming to Kentucky, peculiarly Keith’s identify unit of measurement because he’s from New York City, they said, ‘What are y'all doing that for?’ Louisville has to overcome the reputation of Kentucky.”
In spite of her initial reservations, they moved hither inward Nov 2015. And directly she’s made herself a go of the stuff of the community.
“I actually similar Louisville. It’s minor plenty that y'all don’t own got a lot of large urban center problems. There’s thus much going on: smashing music venues, smashing restaurants. I dear the Kentucky Center for the Arts, the Kentucky Author Forum. People are super, super friendly. I actually similar the fact that y'all own got everything hither that y'all desire to do. And yet, it’s non overwhelming similar living inward a larger city.
“We dear our neighborhood too house. We bought a fixer upper inward the Highlands. There are a lot of ‘Mom too Pop’ stores. It nonetheless has that authenticity.
“Louisville is centrally located. We tin mail away hold upwards inward Chicago inward 4 hours yesteryear car, or own got a 45-minute flight. We tin mail away drive to Nashville.
“Louisville is what Austin was fifteen years ago, when people loved it. Louisville has its ain funkiness. It likewise has its problems. There are things that demand to hold upwards fixed.”
What she’s doing now
Kathy has participated inward Leadership Louisville programs, Focus, too Encore, too is on the Board of the Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations. “I wanted to popular off along abreast of the residue of the the world too how the U.S. fits into that arena.
“I knew that I needed to learn to know Louisville too the people here. So, every door that opened, I walked through it.
“We likely volition e'er alive here,” she says.
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They own got seen the world. They own got successful careers. They could alive anywhere. They chose Louisville. Here are 3 transplants — tops inward their fields — who are making Louisville their forever habitation too stitching themselves into the quilt of life that is the Bluegrass. This is Kathy Stearman's Story.
From the World to Kentucky
“My project was amazing, peculiarly when I got to piece of work overseas,” says Kathy Stearman, who was an FBI agent for over 26 years. “I would run across people (counterparts inward allied countries) too they would say, ‘Oh my god, y'all own got thus much to instruct us.’ Even our partners would facial expression at us as, ‘You are the United States, y'all are the leaders.’ We demand to create ameliorate (with unusual relations) because others create thought us every bit the leaders of the world.”
She got her get-go gustation of the ability of the U.S. inward India. “I hadn’t been inward Republic of Republic of India real long when the equivalent of the FBI inward India, the CBI, called a coming together of legal attaché counterparts at embassies. The CBI inward Republic of Republic of India said, ‘I desire y'all all to come upwards to some consensus.’ The instance from 1 of our allied countries looked around too said, ‘What is the U.S. going to do? Because what y'all do, nosotros are going to follow.’ I thought, “‘I but got here. This was such a huge responsibility, too everyone is going to follow it.
“To me that was 1 of the get-go profound moments I had experienced overseas. I e'er kept that inward mind. It was my responsibleness to alive upwards to their expectations.”
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| Kathy Stearman has traveled too lived all over the the world inward her to a greater extent than than 26 years alongside the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Then she retired too moved to Louisville for her husband's job. Photos: Trina Whalin |
Why Louisville
“I’m from Greensburg, Kentucky, nearly an hr too 45 minutes from here. It has 2 halt lights. I wanted to locomote too hold upwards adventurous. So I decided to create something different, something that women don’t unremarkably do. Someone suggested, why don’t y'all travail the FBI or the Secret Service, too I applied.
“My husband, Keith Glynn, had moved alongside me too my career for over thirty years. He is a chemic engineer too a network safety engineer. He protects estimator systems. When I retired out of San Francisco, nosotros initially went to Austin, Texas, for a twelvemonth too a half. We did non similar it.
“We both started looking exterior of Texas too he got a project offering from Humana inward Louisville. I’d been gone (from Kentucky) almost 35 years.
“I dear my family, but ever since I was a niggling girl, my oculus was on the horizon. I was getting out. Coming dorsum for me was hard. When nosotros told people nosotros were coming to Kentucky, peculiarly Keith’s identify unit of measurement because he’s from New York City, they said, ‘What are y'all doing that for?’ Louisville has to overcome the reputation of Kentucky.”
In spite of her initial reservations, they moved hither inward Nov 2015. And directly she’s made herself a go of the stuff of the community.
“I actually similar Louisville. It’s minor plenty that y'all don’t own got a lot of large urban center problems. There’s thus much going on: smashing music venues, smashing restaurants. I dear the Kentucky Center for the Arts, the Kentucky Author Forum. People are super, super friendly. I actually similar the fact that y'all own got everything hither that y'all desire to do. And yet, it’s non overwhelming similar living inward a larger city.
“We dear our neighborhood too house. We bought a fixer upper inward the Highlands. There are a lot of ‘Mom too Pop’ stores. It nonetheless has that authenticity.
“Louisville is centrally located. We tin mail away hold upwards inward Chicago inward 4 hours yesteryear car, or own got a 45-minute flight. We tin mail away drive to Nashville.
“Louisville is what Austin was fifteen years ago, when people loved it. Louisville has its ain funkiness. It likewise has its problems. There are things that demand to hold upwards fixed.”
What she’s doing now
Kathy has participated inward Leadership Louisville programs, Focus, too Encore, too is on the Board of the Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations. “I wanted to popular off along abreast of the residue of the the world too how the U.S. fits into that arena.
“I knew that I needed to learn to know Louisville too the people here. So, every door that opened, I walked through it.
“We likely volition e'er alive here,” she says.
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