Meet our Governing Board
Laura Kohler
Laura Kohler grew up in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in a family of scientists and history buffs. She attended her local public school and was identified as a gifted student at the age of eight. Laura’s education throughout elementary and secondary school was a blend of mainstream public school, homeschooling, and gifted and honors programs. She came to Cache Valley to study at Utah State University, fell in love with the area, and never left. She is the mother of two students at CCID, and has been involved with the school on a volunteer level since its opening. She has helped spearhead the efforts to organize a library and is currently serving as the PTO president. In her spare time, Laura enjoys research, gardening, kayaking, and reading
Position: Board Chair
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Mi'kel Price
Mi'kel graduated with her M.S. from the Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) Deaf Education program at Utah State University in 2014. She has more than six years of experience working with children with hearing loss and their parents in the classroom, their home, and in tele-health settings. During this time she learned how to be an advocate for social-emotional learning, and how to support parent engagement of their child’s learning, in daily life. She is passionate about education and finding personal solutions to unique problems.
Mi’kel comes from a long line of runners, and enjoys running, quilting, and listening to others’ stories. She enjoys spending time with her family and instilling tools for connection, regulation, and resilience to both of her young children.
Position: Vice Chair
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Kyle Glass
Kyle Glass is the owner of Leg Up Agency. A PR/Marketing Agency that he founded after 15 years of working in the consumer tech industry. His marketing experience focuses primarily in B2B custom installation consumer electronics, where he has worked with companies such as Sony, Bose and Samsung and many more over his career. However, he also has experience working with businesses including, law, not-for-profits, forensic accounting and even shoes.
He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations in 2005, as well as graduate studies in the same field, until 2008 at Ball State University in Indiana.
Kyle is also a wartime Army veteran, having served in Bosnia and Herzegovina during ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’, and supported deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000’s. After six years of service, he departed the military as a sergeant (E-5) in pursuit of education and professional opportunities.
He transplanted in the Logan area in 2020 and believes that the opportunities provided in STEM-focused education, and particularly CCID, will be leg up for his son, a student at CCID, and our community.
Position: Treasurer
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Don Linford
Don was born and raised on a small ranch in Star Valley, Wyoming, learning early the value of hard work and the joy of reading. Having held leadership roles throughout his international banking career, he and his family have been blessed to live and work in several of the world's largest financial centers - Boston, New York, São Paulo and London. He is one the co-founders of Clear Learning Partners a non-profit focused on K-12 schools supporting them in improving learning proficiency. Don brings a passion for developing talents, mentoring, creating high-impact teams, as well as a commitment to supporting effective leadership and governance models with an untiring eye on constant improvement that maximizes the positive impact that STEM education has on students.
Don works for the ASPIRE NSF Engineering Research Center at Utah State University as its Innovation Director, and though an Aggie at heart, he has an MBA from Northeastern University (Boston), and a BA in Political Science from the University of Utah.
Position: Board Member
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