In 2010 Cotler was seen on a Waltons cast reunion and series retrospective that aired on cable network INSP. Elena Hennis It was before the performance and it was a bit chaotic until the children settled into their seats and the dancing started. Kami began her education career in a small, rural district in Virginia, where she taught in an interdisciplinary, alternative program for at-risk high school students. She has reprised her role as the youngest Walton child in each of the Waltons' reunion movies and she occasionally makes speeches and personal appearances. Active in the charter school movement since 2003, Kami Cotler is currently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Environmental Charter Schools. In addition to working as an educator, Cotler ran her own boutique travel company and managed a San Francisco cafe. Cotler is a past board member of the American Montessori Society. She served as the founding Principal of Environmental Charter Middle School, an education facility in southern Los Angeles County, California.

In 2004, Cotler accepted the job as co-director of the Ocean Charter School, a position held until 2007 when she started her own educational consulting business. Cotler returned to California in 2001 and took a position teaching 9th grade at Environmental Charter High School. Her first teaching job, coincidentally, took her to a small rural Virginia school in the Blue Ridge Mountains, much like the fictional one she attended on The Waltons.

Kami was cast in The Waltons movie and later the series. Cotler significantly reduced her acting roles for many years while she attended University of California, Berkeley, earning a degree in Social Sciences. The role of Elizabeth Walton was always meant for Kami Cotler.

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