Faculty
Rinat Manhoff
Eighth Grade English Teacher
Rinat Manhoff has undergraduate degrees in political science and Middle Eastern studies from UC Berkeley, where she wrote her honors thesis about Ethiopian Israeli teenagers and African American stereotypes. After graduation, she drove across the country with everything she owned packed into her Saturn station wagon and began her teaching career in Washington, DC. While teaching there, Rinat earned her master’s degree from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, where she focused on the American education system. Rinat returns to BPC with 26 years of private middle school teaching experience. She lives in a multigenerational duplex with her family and five dogs. Rinat loves Yankees baseball, Giants and Cal football, live theater and dance, and ice cream.
Other Faculty for This Grade
Alyson Mitchell
Eighth Grade History & Geography Teacher
Keen on floating houses and mutant Basset Hounds
Carwai Seto
Eighth Grade Math Teacher and Dean of Upper School Curriculum and Instruction
Loves to travel
Gerry Branner
Upper School Physical Education Teacher, Upper School Athletic Director, and Dean of Upper School Student Citizenship
Jerry Kennedy
Seventh and Eighth Grade Music Teacher, Band Director
Performed music in South Africa during the end of legal apartheid.
