Educator uses poetry, dance to help others reach out

By day she teaches and trains students in the WorkFirst program at Peninsula College.

And by night, Angie Huckstep is fierce and playful, a lioness with dark brown curls highlighted in purple.

Those plum-hued tendrils gleamed one recent night on the Allé Stage when Huckstep performed three poems about love: love between mother and child, between man and woman — and love for oneself.