Katie Bakken traveled with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey as a teacher and assistant performance director, then she worked for Cirque du Soleil where she met her future husband.
https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/02/17/hippos-clowns-and-highwire-acts-one-womans-journey-from-the-circus-to-virginias-colonial-capital/
