Ivy is 10 years old and has grown up in the Pacific Northwest. She loves backpacking with her mom and friends, playing with her dogs, gymnastics and music. She has been playing the piano for 4 years, and it has quickly become more than a hobby. It is a place where she creates and finds ways to put her experience of the world into notes and sometimes words. Ivy homeschools part-time and is going into the 5th grade this year.