LifeWise Academy

About

Kristin Vandagriff is the Florida State Director for LifeWise Academy. She holds an Executive MBA as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. She's worked for 20 years as a connector and convener across two states, focusing on government policy, high level statewide program management, as well as social services provision. She is a published children's book author, has had her grant efforts published in a national journal, as well as having co-authored national briefs and many statewide handbooks, guides, and toolkits. Kristin is married to her college sweetheart of 16 years and is a mom of two with a son in high school and daughter in middle school. She enjoys traveling the state of Florida as a baseball mom and choir mom as well as serving as a Girl Scout Troop Leader. Kristin belongs to Journey Church and is part of their Serve Team outreaching to the Palm Beach County community.

LifeWise Academy is a Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) program which provides Bible-based character education to public school students. Under RTRI laws, students can be released from public school during the school day to attend religious classes, provided the program is off school property, privately funded and parent-permitted. LifeWise was founded in 2018 to be a plug-and-play program for local communities across the nation to bring Bible education to public school students during school hours.