Bri Blakney

Bri grew up in the small town of Buras, Louisiana, surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River. She and her husband Lee, who have been married for over 20 years, moved to Lafayette in 2007 to work with a campus organization at UL Lafayette until 2012 when they moved to Colorado. After 9 years of living in Littleton and then back in Buras, she and Lee returned to the Lafayette area to raise their teens/preteen Bella, Brennan, and Breelee. Bri has been a classroom teacher, an ELA Master Teacher, and recently became an Instructional Leader at a middle school in LPSS. You can usually find her journaling, reading books, taking long walks with Lee, and serving in her local church with her family.