Our People

Meet the People Who Make the Magic

Lower School Faculty
Upper School Faculty
Administration & Staff
Extended Day
Board

Lower School Faculty

Ke Williams

Kindergarten Head Teacher, Lower School Assistant Teacher Coordinator

Grace Reinhalter

Kindergarten Assistant Teacher

Chelsea Feldman

First Grade Head Teacher, Kindergarten and First Grade Garden Teacher

Ana Sellers

First Grade Assistant Teacher

Romina Ronquillo

Second Grade Head Teacher, Lower School Student & Faculty Operations Coordinator

Elizabeth Rivera

Second Grade Assistant Teacher

Tess Leverenz

Third Grade Head Teacher

Kara Kersey

Third Grade Assistant Teacher

Grace Williams

Fourth Grade Head Teacher

Lessley Bender

Fourth Grade Assistant Teacher

Sandy Brumbaum

Fifth Grade Head Teacher

Priscilla Kim

Fifth Grade Head Teacher

Lesedi Graveline

Fifth Grade Assistant Teacher

Vera Balarin

Lower School Math Specialist

Rem Djemilev

BPC String Orchestra Leader

Rachel Durling

First-Third Grade Violin Teacher

Hande Erdem

Cello teacher

Michael Feferman

Lower School Physical Education Teacher

Aïda Garcia-Pons

Lower School Spanish Teacher

Kim Livingston

Lower School Art Teacher

Nicole Lockwood

Kindergarten-Fifth Grade Science and Second-Fifth Grade Garden Teacher

Owen Roberts

Kindergarten-Third Grade Music Teacher

Cheryl Sumsion

Fourth-Sixth Grade Music Teacher

Upper School Faculty

Gerry Branner

Upper School Physical Education Teacher and Upper School Athletic Director

Torin Coffino

Sixth Grade History Teacher

Jonathan Cohen

Eighth Grade Science Teacher

Rem Djemilev

BPC String Orchestra Leader

Sage Ellenwood

Seventh Grade Science Teacher

Zina Gulimovskaya

Seventh Grade Math Assistant, Math Team Coach

Anatoliy Gulimovskiy

Seventh Grade Math Teacher, Math Club / Math Team Coach

Maggie Hardy

Seventh Grade History Teacher

Kathy Henderson

Sixth & Seventh Grade Math Teacher

Nitya Jain

Sixth Grade Science Teacher

Melissa Jiménez

Upper School Art Teacher

Jerry Kennedy

Seventh and Eighth Grade Music Teacher, Band Director

Vtwo Liang - Sixth Grade Mandarin Assistant

Vtwo Liang

Sixth Grade Mandarin Assistant

Rinat Manhoff

Eighth Grade English Teacher

Alyson Mitchell

Eighth Grade History & Geography Teacher

Maria Palmer

Sixth Grade English Teacher

Stephanie Piper

Seventh Grade English Teacher

Carla Rodea

Eighth Grade Spanish Teacher

Sarah Roggero

Sixth and Seventh Grade Spanish Teacher

Carwai Seto

Eighth Grade Math Teacher

Cheryl Sumsion

Fourth-Sixth Grade Music Teacher

Natasha Vdovychenko

Nataliya Vdovychenko

Upper School Assistant Teacher

Xiaoyan Xu

Upper School Mandarin Teacher

Administration and Staff

Jase Turner

Head of School

Tanveer Alibhai

Tanveer Alibhai

Head of Lower School

Andra Marziano

Interim Head of Upper School

Diana Mitchell

Chief Financial Officer

Miles Asher

IT Support Associate

Barbara Bañez

Assistant Director - Extended Day Program, Lower School Office Assistant

Susana Barajas

Admissions & Advancement Associate

Mulan Bartholomew

Database Administrator and Registrar

Sam Cantrell

Director of Extended Day Programs

Betsy Cory

Director of Lower School Student Support Services and Lower School Counselor

Sonam Gonsar

Upper School Office Manager

Michael Gutiérrez

Upper School Academic Support Specialist and Seventh Grade Drama Teacher

Lesley Jones

Director of Communications

David Lee

Director of Technology

Sasha Levine

Upper School Counselor

Jen Levy

Lower School Learning Specialist

Kathleen McNulty

Kathleen McNulty

Lower School Librarian

Lucy Morris

Lucy Morris

Administrative Assistant to the Head of Lower School and Lower School Office Manager

Kelly Mullen

Executive Assistant to the Head of School & Project Manager

John Ormsby

Director of Development

Andrew Solter

Upper School Mathematics and Learning Specialist

Michael Stokes

Upper School Director of Student Learning Services

Madalyn Wang

Business Office Coordinator

Greta B. Wong

Director of Enrollment and Admissions

Extended Day Team

Barbara Bañez

Assistant Director - Extended Day Program, Lower School Office Assistant

Sam Cantrell

Director of Extended Day Programs

Ava Donleavy

Extended Day Program Teacher

Jonothon Rich

Extended Day Program Teacher

Katie Smart

Extended Day Program Teacher

Board of Directors

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Lukasz Strozek – Board Chair

Chief Technology Officer at LendingClub

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Max Christoff – Vice Chair

Senior Director of Engineering, Chrome Browser (Google)

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Alper Atamturk

Earl J. Isaac Chair, Science & Analysis of Decision Making, Prof. & Dept Chair, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley

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Nirav Bisarya

Managing Partner at Gen3 Ventures & Co-Founder of Coral EV

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Gary Borden

Partner, The City Fund

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Mirna Cervantes

Executive Director, The Multicultural Institute (MI)

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Shruti M. Deorah

Executive Director, India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

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Dave Hoverman

Senior Partner at Bain & Company

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Katy Isa (Hakimian)

Criminal Defense Attorney, Law Office of Katherine Isa

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Seema Jain

Deputy Health Officer, San Francisco Dept of Public Health

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Sonia Katyal

Professor and Distinguished Traynor Chair at University of California, Berkeley School of Law

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Polly Lockman

Communications Director at The College Preparatory School

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Christine Ma

Prof. of Pediatrics, UCSF, Medical Dir. for Encore Medical Clinic, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland

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Simon Morfit

Independent Consultant - Social Impact

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Sabine O’Sullivan

Associate Producer, Pixar Animation Studio

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Scott Phoenix

Partner, Fifty Years

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Patrice Wakeley

Director of Institutional Equity & Belonging, San Francisco Friends School

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Tony Wicks

Tony Wicks

Managing Director, Sovereign Consulting Services

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Caitrin Wright

CEO, Silicon Schools Fund

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Karen Zukor – Board Secretary

Statistics Consultant, World Health Organization

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