Describing herself as energized, loving, and adventurous, Kara Fifield officially works as an assistant to Ignite Christian Academy’s dean. Her daily job responsibilities are diversified and range from faculty advising and teaching history, to taking care of academic integrity issues with ICA’s distance learning students. She especially enjoys grading a student’s well-done paper and the conversations she has when advising ICA parents on how to help their child succeed. Using her degree in psychology to provide parents with helpful tips, Kara said, “My job is all about people and making the most of every conversation.”
Growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, Kara caught her family’s enthusiasm for Husker football at an early age. She also participated in many different sports herself, and claimed softball as her “number one sport” due to her father’s patience in teaching her how to pitch. Cherishing many of her childhood memories, Kara especially remembers her grandmother’s wonderful role model of love and servanthood and their moments spent together cooking and talking about the good old days. Today Kara stills enjoys Nebraska football as well as scrapbooking, photography backdrops, watching movies, and traveling. She’s backpacked in New Zealand, gone on a mission trip to Trinidad, and spent five months studying abroad in Australia during her junior year in college. She also hopes to travel to Europe within the next couple of years with her best friend, fellow ICA high school English teacher, and husband, Grant Fifield. 
Living every moment to the fullest, Kara would like to be remembered as a person who wholeheartedly loved Jesus and others. Whether helping her students at Ignite Christian Academy or facing personal responsibilities, Kara lives by the truth of her life’s motto, “Dance like nobody’s watching, love like you’ve never been hurt, sing like nobody’s listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”