Our cooperative preschool is guided by a dedicated group of current parent and alumni parent volunteers who generously give their time, skills, and hearts to support our school community. Our board members work collaboratively to ensure a nurturing, well-run environment where children can learn, play, and grow. As parents themselves, they bring thoughtfulness, care, and a shared commitment to early childhood education. And because we’re a school that celebrates the joy of childhood, each board member bio includes their favorite children’s book — a small glimpse into the stories that inspire them both at home and in the classroom.
Meet the Board Members
Elizabeth Consani
Co-President
Not to be confused with “Teacher Elizabeth”, Elizabeth Consani is the preschool Co-President and her day job is working for Multnomah County. She is mom of two alumni students (who are now in their late teens) and she no longer drives a mini-van or keeps kid-friendly snacks stashed in her purse. She has held many positions on the preschool’s board and in many capacities of parent organizations at PPS where her kids attended school.
She is passionate about the needs of children and their families and is the guiding principle for the decisions made at Cathedral Park Preschool. In addition to her family, her loves are community, art, and our planet. Favorite food: “I really can’t get enough beets right now.”
Co-President
Ashlee Lauer
"There is a house, a napping house, where everyone is sleeping."
Ashlee Lauer is mom to an amazing three year old and is the current Cathedral Park Co-President. Ashlee works as a mental health therapist helping people throughout Oregon, Washington, and Utah with a variety of mental health concerns. Outside of work, Ashlee loves reading, running, trying new restaurants, and exploring parks with her family and dogs.
Vice President
Lillian Lauer
Lillian is the current Vice President. She is mom to two boys, the younger of whom joined Cathedral Park Preschool (CPP) in spring 2025. Like Mrs. Mallard from Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings—a story set in her hometown of Boston—she loves keeping everything on track and moving smoothly.
When she isn’t supporting CPP, Lillian works as an HR professional for start-ups, plans community events, moonlights as a professional organizer and manages a short-term vacation rental.
She’s a former long-distance runner and ultramarathoner who is now aspiring to be a cyclist and weightlifter.
Rachel Dial-Krulewitch
Secretary
“Hope and peace and love and trust. All the world is all of us.”
Rachel is our preschool’s secretary. She’s a mother of two with one more arriving this January! Her oldest will be starting his second year at CPP this fall. All the World has become her favorite book to read aloud at bedtime.
Before her second was born, she was a nanny to numerous families in the Portland area for 14 plus years. Her first born came right along with her for his first three years. She is passionate about understanding children and helping them be understood. In a previous life, she played and sang in a local gloom rock band, and even went on a European tour. Now her days are filled with chasing, guiding and loving her kids. When she has free time, she mends, sings, starts DIY projects, and watches good movies.
Katt Giatis
Treasurer
Katt is the Treasurer and a mom of two, with her son now in his third year at CPP. The book Miss Rumphius has been a longtime favorite since her own childhood, and she loves that it celebrates an independent woman who leaves the world more beautiful than she found it.
In her (mostly nonexistent) free time, Katt likes to start more projects than she can finish, mostly sewing and repair projects. She is drawn to the Japanese concept of kintsugi — a mending technique that honors the cracks or broken pieces of something, and repairs it in a beautiful way to make them part of the story. She also loves baking, gardening, and nurturing things back to life. A longtime dancer before motherhood, Katt is slowly finding her way back to the joy of movement again.
Shelby Aquino
Membership Coordinator
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