Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien
was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has lived
in Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, S. Carolina;
Atlanta, Georgia; Washington, D.C.; and San Diego,
California. She attended Cohasset High School
in Massachusetts before her four years of college
at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien currently works as a
real estate agent. Prior to this, she was self-employed
for 10 years running her small businesses: a
unique paper, gifts, and art products store
and an event-planning business. She also worked
in newspaper advertising. Her favorite hobbies
are hiking, skiing, sailing, road-biking and
fly-fishing. In 1998, she biked across the United
States for the American Lung Association as
a dedication to her father. The trip was 48
days from Seattle to Washington, D.C., and raised
over $1.5 million.
Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien currently resides in
Burlington, Vermont. She has one son, Patrick.
Her birth date is Jan. 6.
