Felicia Spencer is both a math teacher and a champion MMA fighter, and I’m curious as to which crowd—the fellow educators or the fellow fighters—find this fact to be the most surprising.
Speaking to Spencer, the teacher side of the equation is easy to square: she’s eloquent, patient and exceedingly thoughtful. It’s not a stretch imagining her explaining constants and variables in her virtual classroom. But it’s this same calm and composed aura that makes her day job a little harder to figure out. From where exactly does the undefeated slayer side of her psyche emerge?