Kirsten Brademeyer

Kirsten Brademeyer is an educator at heart, even if she’s never had her own classroom. As the Education and Youth Programs Director at Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, she works alongside young people to reimagine what care for our shared public spaces can look like and to ensure they are centered, heard, and celebrated in the process.

Before moving to Cincinnati in 2020, Kirsten served as a College Advisor at a public high school in Columbus, where she supported students through the college-going process and developed an exploratory career readiness curriculum that gave middle schoolers the space to look inward. Education runs deep in her life, as both of her parents, and both of her husband’s parents were teachers. It feels second nature to her to see teaching and learning everywhere.

Now a parent herself, Kirsten finds that her greatest lessons often come from her own child: that adults could stand to be more child-like in their endeavors. That creativity, curiosity, and confidence are instincts we’re all born with and maybe, the work of adulthood is remembering how to use them again.