Meet Our Team
Mountain States Driver's Education is run by a group of skillful and friendly driving instructors. We are backed by decades of experience in teaching new drivers the fundamentals of road safety. The safety and success of our students are our top priorities at MSDE. All of our instructors and staff are listed below. We invite you to get to know them!
Anthony Smith
Anthony is a Northern Colorado native and has lived his entire life in Fort Collins and the surrounding areas. He has been a driver's education instructor since 2000. Throughout the years he has been on over 15,000 driving appointments, over 1,000 driving tests, and trained more than 100 motorcyclists. He finds the MSDE staff, as well as the students and parents he meets, to be a constant joy in his life.
On his off-time, he enjoys spending time with his family, church community, and focusing on his hobbies, which includes motorcycling, cars, traveling, and exercise.
Randy
Randy brings more than 40 years of educational experience to Mountain States Driver's Education. His diversified background as a teacher, coach, counselor and driving instructor ensures that you will have a successful learning experience.
Randy and his wife Lori hail from Ohio, but they moved to Colorado as soon as they could. When Randy is not at the Loveland campus helping students become safe defensive drivers he is exploring Colorado and enjoying all the activities the state has to offer.
Bryan
Bryan was born in eastern Kansas but has lived in Northern Colorado since 1970. He has worked in the recreation field and as a youth basketball and soccer coach for over 13 years. He studied at Front Range Community College and Colorado State University. Bryan, his wife, and daughter have lived in Wellington with their three cats since 2013. Bryan is a huge fan of role-playing games, board games, fitness, hiking, reading, fantasy and sci-fi movies, and absolutely loves music, especially attending live concerts. He enjoys working for MSDE at the Windsor Campus and helping student-drivers achieve their goal of becoming safe drivers
'Cille
'Cille (pronounced "seal") is the office admin at our Longmont campus. A lifelong resident of Colorado, she is happiest playing in the mountains. An avid musician, she'll try and play anything that's small enough to fit in a backpack and take out on the trail: flutes, whistles, melodicas, ukuleles, concertinas, and of course the occasional finger cymbals. When not making music or riding bikes and boards in the mountains, she can be found hanging out (usually in the kitchen) with her husband, son, pets, friends, and family.
Theresa
Theresa comes with 15 years of educational experience to Mountain States Driver's Education. Currently, she is a behind-the-wheel instructor and also teaches the 32 hour class. She loves working with young adults, and giving them all the information to become a safe driver. She enjoys working for MSDE at Longmont, Fort Collins and Loveland.
She moved to Colorado in 1980. When Theresa is off she loves spending time with her daughter, doing dinner shows, and playing with her 2 dogs and 2 cats.
Gina
Born and raised in Colorado, Gina is a patient and experienced Driving Instructor with over three decades behind the wheel. She has expertise in the rules of the road, as well as basic car maintenance. As a Driving Instructor providing in-car driving lessons to students of all ages and skill levels, Gina has a passion for teaching safe driving habits and a commitment to ensuring students are proficient in skills necessary to pass the driving test, navigate highways, byways, and Colorado mountain roads.
Wyatt
Izaac
I'm a Colorado native born and raised. I enjoy spending my free time with my family, friends, and my two "little brat" dogs Luna and Peaches. If I'm not with them you can usually find me playing disc golf or softball in my free time. I look forward to my future with Mountain States driver education, and the opportunity to guide our youth to accomplishing their goal of obtaining their license.
Chris
Chris works primarily in our Longmont office. He has held a commercial drivers license, motorcycle license, and forklift license. He's driven dump trucks, towed trailers, and driven professionally delivering various things over the years; including having driven a right-hand drive postal vehicle for the US postal service (as well as lots of golf carts 😉. He and his wife have been together 17 years, and he is the father of 5, with two grandsons. Chris is originally from Wichita, Kansas, but he feels more at home in Colorado.
Laurel
"I am originally from Southern California, but have lived in Loveland for the last 14 years. You can usually find me at our Loveland or Fort Collins locations as an instructor for behind-the wheel lessons and teaching the 32 hour class. I enjoy teaching people of any age how to drive! I am very patient, and my goal is to help all of my students become safe and confident drivers. In my free time I'm usually hanging out with my husband and 4 daughters. I enjoy roller skating, hiking and doing yoga."
Misty
"Misty has recently moved back to Northern Colorado after spending the past few years in the Phoenix, AZ area teaching Behind-the-wheel training. She focused a lot of her training teaching defensive driving skills while helping new drivers gain confidence.
In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with her family outdoors as much as possible, either camping, hiking or swimming as well as going to Florida as much as possible to spend time at the beach with her granddaughter. "
Bryan W.
" Bryan was born and raised in Fort Collins and went to CSU to study secondary
education. However, after graduating he went into construction for the next 20+ years
before pursuing his lifelong dream of keeping and enjoying horses. After trying a few
different and new career paths, Bryan found a place at MSDE as a driving instructor and
enjoys the work immensely.
Although he has a deep appreciation for automobiles, he is truly passionate about
multi-use public roads. “Roads are for people!,” you might hear him declare during a
lesson.
Bryan spends most of his free time working with his quarter horses. You might see him
on horseback with a dog or driving a horse-drawn carriage on the county roads north of
FC, in Wellington or LaPorte; look out! And he THANKS YOU for your awareness and
patience while driving!"
Emalee
"I am a Colorado native, originally from the Western slope. I primarily am an office admin in our Loveland and Greeley offices, I also provide teaching for our 32 hour class in Greeley. Outside of work, I am a mom to a 3-year old little boy and in my free time I like to read and spend time with my family.
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Adam
"Adam was born and raised in Loveland, Colorado and is an author, musician and software developer. He enjoys and finds fulfillment in helping students and making a difference in their lives.
