Margaret Rasmussen grew up in the Bethlehem Community, a lay Catholic group of Benedictine Oblates in Bathgate, North Dakota. She was educated at home and worked for a number of years in the community's publishing house: Bethlehem Books. She studied Liberal Arts for a year at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy (now college) in Ontario, Canada, and later finished her undergraduate studies at the University of Mary, Bismarck, graduating in 2020 with a BA in History. Margaret has three siblings and two nephews; she loves the outdoors, baking, music and good books. She first heard about St. Joseph's Montessori School at UMary and struck, upon visiting, by its wholesomeness in both atmosphere and style of education, felt drawn to the work.