My name is Kasey. I am a co-founder/director of Metamorphosis Child Care and founder of Organic Kids Child Care and SOMOS Metamorphosis Child Care. While growing up, I would spend time at the preschool where my mother worked and always imagined myself teaching someday. After starting our first family childcare program back in 2012, we have been able to learn and grow while providing high-quality child care in our community. As a director, my goal is to build strong, patient, and loving teachers who will, in turn, help us create an environment that fully enables and supports confident and happy children.
My name is Katherine Almanzar. CEO of Metamorphosis Child Care. After completing my Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Early Childhood Education, and Psychology, I worked as a teacher caring for children from birth to 7 years of age. I later decided on a career change and became a medical assistant. That was up until my daughter Kasey and her wife Maria came to me one night with the idea to start a childcare program. Together, and along with our individual strengths, we have been able to create and provide you with the program that you know and love.
Hey there! I am Maria. I like to say that I am the face behind the emails. A little bit about me. New Yorker -born and raised- but made with Dominican materials. My parents emigrated from the Dominican Republic in search of a better life back in the 80’s. As one of six siblings with an incredibly large family, I always knew that I wanted to become a teacher and always found myself babysitting siblings and cousins. Fast forward to April 2012 – the first Metamorphosis Child Care was born! A year later, the second Metamorphosis Child Care was born, and I went from assistant teacher to head teacher of our first location. For 4 years, I was hands-on in the classroom while managing MCCII and later MCCIII from behind the scenes.
In 2016, Kasey and I founded Organic Kids Child Care. I stepped down from my head teacher position at MCCI to take on the role of head teacher at OKCC while continuing the administrative behind-the-scenes work for all Metamorphosis Child Care locations. It’s been over a decade, and we are truly looking forward to all that is yet to come. All that goes into planning our days for the kiddos brings me great joy, and there is nothing that I love more than becoming a part of your village.