Lower School

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Hande Erdem

July 17, 2025

(coming soon)

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Lesedi Graveline

June 23, 2025

Lesedi Graveline is a proud Motswana-American and womanist educator who has spent the past decade working with youth in schools, outdoor education programs, and community-based spaces. As the incoming 5th-grade…

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Grace Williams

June 23, 2025

Grace Williams received her B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in 2014. She began her teaching career working in immersion school environments in the U.S. before moving abroad. She spent two…

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Priscilla Kim

June 23, 2025

Priscilla Kim received her multiple-subject teaching credential and M.A. in education from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2016, fulfilling a dream she had since she was an elementary student….

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Ana Sellers

Ana Sellers

June 30, 2023

Ana Sellers was born and raised in Berkeley, California. She holds an associate’s degree in general education with a focus on arts and design. Her journey working with children began…

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Chelsea Feldman

Chelsea Feldman

June 30, 2023

Chelsea attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and University College Cork in Ireland, where she studied Irish literature and modern dance. She received her master’s degree in early childhood education…

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Grace Reinhalter

Grace Reinhalter

June 22, 2023

Grace earned her B.A. in sociology from Occidental College and her child development associate teacher certificate from Merritt College. She has worked and played alongside children and young adults her…

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Lessley Bender

Lessley Bender

June 22, 2023

Lessley Bender graduated from the University of Maryland in 2012 with a B.S. in environmental science and policy, with a focus on conservation biology. Both as an undergraduate at UMD…

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Sandy Brumbaum

Sandy Brumbaum

June 22, 2023

Sandy Brumbaum has been an educator for over 30 years, consulting and teaching in independent, public, and charter schools, as well as graduate classes at SF State and Mills College….

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Tess Leverenz

Tess Leverenz

June 22, 2023

Tess Leverenz is a certified Responsive Classroom educator, as well as a part-time consulting teacher for the Center for Responsive Schools. Tess studied childhood education and Spanish in college, prompting…

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