Ms. Lander was born in Murfreesboro, TN, and as the daughter of an Air Force career father lived in various places throughout her childhood including Morocco, Missouri, and North Dakota.  When her father retired, the family settled and Ms. Lander attended junior and senior high school in Spokane.  Ms. ...read more

Mrs. Rogers was born and grew up in Florida, playing in many undeveloped woods, orange groves, and various bodies of water.  A devout tomboy, she enjoys canoe rides on a slow moving rivers when she returns to drink in “Old Florida.”  An amateur fiber artist from a very young age, Mrs. Rogers ...read more

Mr. Preston was born to British parents in Mbale, Uganda and grew up in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania until age thirteen, then lived in New Zealand until he was eighteen. He experienced teaching for the first time as an eighteen-year-old, teaching a class of children in  Vanuatu for a year, for the New Zealand ...read more

Miss Seidman grew up in Philadelphia, PA. She began her undergraduate work at New York University, then completed her BA in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She obtained her Waldorf Teacher Training certification from Mercy College of Detroit, and later did graduate ...read more

Ms. Holscher was born in West Germany and first entered the United States as an exchange student at the age of fifteen. She has been living in the US since starting college in 1977. Her work outside elementary teaching has included office management with Seattle Tree Preservation, owning and directing ...read more

Mrs. Evans grew up in Columbia, Maryland where her family enjoyed being the “pioneers” of this new planned community.  Ms. Evans has fond memories of neighborhood parades, walking to school through the forest, and making friends with classmates who had a different skin color than her own.  ...read more

Mr. Zabel was born and raised in the hilly south-west of Germany, near Stuttgart. There he benefited from nine years of Waldorf education. Being required to a year of service, Mr. Zabel worked in the intentional anthroposophical Camphill Community with people with special needs in Aberdeen Scotland. He stayed in ...read more

MaryAnne Hinton was born in Staten Island, NY and spent her childhood in Wheaton, IL; Birmingham, AL; and Westfield, NJ.  She graduated from Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, NH with a B.A. in Theatre Arts.  She enjoyed working in summer theatre productions and studying acting at Playwrights ...read more

Miss Foster was born in New Jersey and moved to Hawaii at the age of seven.  At the age of eighteen, she moved to Philadelphia then NYC to pursue her dreams of being a musician and built a career over ten years as a recording and touring artist in a rock band. After the band reached international success, ...read more

Mrs. Moore was born in San Mateo, CA and grew up all over California, settling her senior year of high school in Spokane, WA.  She pursued three years of undergraduate work at Holy Names College and Gonzaga University, interrupted by marriage to a Navy musician.  After the birth of her son and daughter, ...read more

Mrs. Smith was born in Seattle and grew up in Seattle, WA; Media, PA; Redmond, WA; and Salem, OR.  She studied Biology and Nutrition at University of Oregon and Oregon State University, before completing a B.S. in Education with a Major in General Biology from the University of Arizona.  A cyclist, ...read more

Mrs. Whitlatch was born at a Naval hospital in San Diego, CA and spent her early childhood in San Diego, CA; Renton, WA; and Redondo Beach, CA.  When she was eight years old, her parents settled in Canoga Park, CA (San Fernando Valley) where she lived until she was eighteen years old.  She holds a B.A. ...read more

Lin Sensei was raised in Aichi, Japan until she was seventeen years old, and then sent to a boarding high school in Northfield, MA.  She attended a liberal arts junior college in Massachusetts, then the Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in song writing.  Before teaching, she worked for ...read more

Tokura Sensei is from Osaka, born fifth in a family of seven.  Being of Korean ancestry, she struggled against racial prejudice in Japanese society, which motivated her to seek an educational opportunity in the United States.  Seeking to understand her identity, she completed International Studies at ...read more

Señor Gandára was born in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and relocated to the United States at the age of 11 years old, not speaking a word of English.  As a child, he trained in gymnastics for thirteen years and has combined ballet and acting with a love for American musicals.  ...read more

Mrs. Beatie was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.  She attended University of Utah on a full musical scholarship and left that program after auditioning and joining the Utah Symphony at the end of her freshman year.  Most of her musical education was thereafter received on concert stages in ...read more

Mrs. Root was raised as the daughter of an officer in the U.S. Army.  She was born in Garmisch, Germany and then lived in Moscow, USSR; London, UK; Monterey, CA; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Honolulu, HI; Fort Leavenworth, KS; Nebraska City, NE; Springfield, VA; Carlisle, PA; Fort Benning, GA; not necessarily ...read more

Miss Laura was born in Kirkland, Washington and was raised in the then rural, North Rose Hill neighborhood. Her house was surrounded by horse pastures, open fields and woods where she and her two sisters spent long days playing. Her favorite place in the yard was the dirt pile where she spent many hours ...read more

Mrs. Reilly grew up in Arkansas and gained a love of the outdoors by playing in the woods with her sisters and spending time camping.  She met her husband while attending college in Arkansas and knew from an early age that she was called to be a teacher.  While living in New Mexico, she ...read more

Mr. Sears was born in New York, but spent his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Some of his favorite memories are of camping and hiking through the Sierras or lush Redwood forests near the coast.  In high school, Mr. Sears was a competitive bicycle racer, specializing in road and criterium races ...read more

Miss Hoff is a Washington state native who grew up in the  Goodenough Community, attending the Seattle Waldorf School from pre-school through eighth grade.  As a former Waldorf student herself, she can speak confidently of the benefits and approach to this form of education.  Miss Hoff obtained a ...read more

Ms. Fristad grew up living among Dakota peoples in southeastern South Dakota, attending first through 12th grades with Native American students from several states. The imprint of the “circle of wisdom” encountered in that community set the groundwork for her profession with students, teachers and ...read more

Mrs. Ralston was born in Santa Ana, CA and moved to Joyce, WA when she was five years old.  She spent the next four years on a hundred acre farm with two ponds, two creeks, a herd of cows, and seventeen horses, and two sets of grandparents before her parents moved to Port Angeles when she was nine.  She ...read more

Born, raised, and educated  in the Midwest comes Grace Smith.  She attended schools from kindergarten though high school from a town just outside Kansas City, Missouri.  From here she obtained a BS from the University of Missouri at Columbia in elementary education, and then a Masters degree after that ...read more